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The Way the Wind Blew: A History of the Weather Underground (Haymarket Series)
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1997
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Daydream Sunset: Sixties Counterculture in the Seventies
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2015
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All the Sinners, Saints
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2013
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Short Order Frame Up
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2007
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Tripping Through the American Night
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2011
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Capitalism: Is the Problem
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The Co-Conspirator's Tale
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Still Tripping in the Dark
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Living the American Nightmare
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Cronies is part tall tale, a memoir, and a song of brotherly love and camaraderie. It’s about a time when art and music meshed with acid in search of an ecstatic revival of the human spirit lost in the cloud of atomic war. http://stillhomeron.blogspot ...more |
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“there was a common understanding that religion generally served the powerful, who manipulated the words of the gods and prophets to justify their greed and lust for power. Yet Christianity comes in numerous guises; mystical to dogmatic; it is used by some as a reason to justify their wars, their oppression and their hatreds. Others use it to oppose those wars and other injustices.”
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“After the original rapture of conversion had settled in, (Bob) Dylan backed away from his obviously Christian lyrics and returned to his more metaphorical use of language.”
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