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    <updated_at>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:21:17 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[ This has both of Schulz's extant collections and I've only read the title collection, which is pretty amazing. It's composed of short, inter-related stories/chapters (Schulz wrote them originally as letters, I learned from the intro) told by the young son about his family and town in the years in w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80888319">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:21:42 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Though I've read the more recent &quot;Samuel Johnson&quot; and &quot;Varieties,&quot; I'd never read this one, her first collection. Obviously in a book with this many pieces (there are about 34) there are going to be some ups and downs, but the cumulative effect is quite pleasing and impressive. Y...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78637711">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:59:33 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Somehow, for all my Kansophile proclivities, I'd never read this. Not sure why I ducked it for so long, but I finally got around to it this month. It's more of a 3.5 than a straight 3, so it was a solid read. I found it hard to read on its own terms, though. I feel like it's a book whose own mytholo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78635477">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:34:21 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[My first Salinger in a long, long time. Somehow I never got around to this. Obviously I haven't spent much time with the Glass family, but I was struck by how ahead of the game Salinger was with his family of super-precocious-emotionally-troubled child geniuses. I always think of that as a more rece...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74446519">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 5 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/88444.After_Nature">After Nature (Modern Library Paperbacks)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14483.W_G_Sebald">W.G. Sebald</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:05:23 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I was curious to read this not only because I love Sebald but also to see how his poems differed from the prose. Truth is, from my perspective, not a whole lot (other than formally), which ain't a bad thing. 'After Nature' is made up of three long poems, each focusing on a different person (a 15th C...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74445942">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2842989.Talkin_Socialism_J_A_Wayland_and_the_Radical_Press">Talkin' Socialism: J. A. Wayland and the Radical Press (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/107284.Elliott_Shore">Elliott Shore</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:58:51 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Fascinating study of the radical press in kansas, primarily The Appeal to Reason, the largest circulated socialist newspaper in the country. Points out the difficulties of running a radical paper in a capitalist country, the dilemmas, contradictions, and sacrifices that must be made to have a voice....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74445365">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2314545.A_Common_Humanity_Kansas_Populism_and_the_Battle_for_Justice_and_Equality_1854_1903">A Common Humanity:  Kansas Populism and the Battle for Justice and Equality, 1854-1903 (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1040602.O_Gene_Clanton">O. Gene Clanton</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:14:04 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[more radical agrarians!]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25414.Understanding_Capitalism_Critical_Analysis_from_Karl_Marx_to_Amartya_Sen">Understanding Capitalism: Critical Analysis from Karl Marx to Amartya Sen (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14292.Douglas_Down">Douglas Down</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 10:17:05 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This was a good read. It's a collection of essays that proceeds chronologically from Marx, focusing on a different thinker or group of like-minded critics, introducing key ideas and terms that have shaped the way we think and critique capitalism. Good essays on Gramsci and Veblen, in particular, as ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70153982">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 2 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/89323.Joe_Hill">Joe Hill (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/157779.Wallace_Stegner">Wallace Stegner</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 10:08:13 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This book's rating might have suffered because i was interrupted so frequently that it dragged on a much longer than it should have. Anyway, this is the first Stegner i've read. I wanted to see how he treated politics, particularly the Wobblies. It was over-long, but the writing was pretty strong. N...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70153390">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/347019.The_Populist_Moment_A_Short_History_of_the_Agrarian_Revolt_in_America">The Populist Moment: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America (Galaxy Books)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/199069.Lawrence_Goodwyn">Lawrence Goodwyn</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:26:19 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Ah Kansas. This is a really interesting book that traces the origins, development, and ultimate demise of the radical agrarian Populist movement on the 1890s. Goodwyn writes from both an activist and academic perspective, looking at how mass movements begin, how they become viable, how they survive ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62765401">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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