Stealing History

Author: Gerald Stern
Edition: First Trade Paper Edition
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 1595341412

Stealing History

In the tradition of essayists like Montaigne and Emerson, Gerald Stern reflects with wit, pathos, rage, and tenderness on 85 years of life. Get Stealing History literature books for free.
In 70 short, intermingling essays Stern moves nimbly between the past and the present, the personal and the philosophical. Creating the immediacy of dailiness, he writes with entertaining engagement about what he's reading, be it Spinoza, Maimonides, John Cage, Etheridge Knight, James Schuyler, or Lucille Clifton, and then he seamlessly turns to memories of his student years in Europe on the GI Bill, or his political and social action. Interwoven with his formidable recollections are passionate discussions of lifelong obsessions: his conflicted identity as a secular Jew opposed to Israel's Palestine poli Check Stealing History our best literature books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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In 70 short, intermingling essays Stern moves nimbly between the past and the present, the personal and the philosophical Interwoven with his formidable recollections are passionate discussions of lifelong obsessions: his conflicted identity as a secular Jew opposed to Israel's Palestine poli

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