The Pulitzer Project: The Pulitzer Project
Just finished reading all the Pultizer Prize books for Fiction in 2009. I'm ready to start tackling the other Pulitzer categories
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
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As I said in my Last post onward and upward after finishing the Pulitzer fiction. So far in 2010 I've read Ghost Wars which is about the CIA involvement in Afganistan and adds a lot of details left out of Charlie Wilson's war. It reads like a novel and show how complex the political situation really is over there. It also lets you read current news articles with a different perspective.
ReplyDeleteAfter that I read Gulag and Slavery by another Name. It was very interesting to read these books back to back and they both speak of government repression against helpless class of people. It makes us realize we have a lot of cleaning up to do in our own country before we can point fingers at anybody else. It's unbelievable the amount of cruelty that is displayed in these well written books.it's easy to see that cruelty has no national boundaries.
I've laso read the book Polio and the discovery of the Polio vacine. It was both an uplifting and sad story. The uplifting part delpt with the effort FDR spent trying the find a cure and how during his lifetime there seemed to be a unity of purpose in finding a cure. However after his death the search for a cure dealt with the animosity and rivalry between those who were looking for cure.
Currently I'm reading The Race Beat whioh deals with how the white and black press presented and influenced school desegration and Civil Rights