Two Wands, One Nation: An Essay on Race and Community in America

by Richard D. Lamm

An exploration of race, culture, and community in twenty-first-century America.

96 pages, Paperback

First published January 27, 2006

Reviews

[AuthorsOnTourLive! · Rating 5 out of 5]

As part of its illustrious Speaker's Corner series, Fulcrum Publishing has released three new books. Former Senator Hart talks about God and Caesar in America: An Essay on Religion and Politics ($9.95 Fulcrum ISBN 1-55591-577-9) as well as another book he has just written on terrorism, Shield and the Cloak ($22.00 Oxford University Press ISBN 10-19-530616-3); former Senator McGovern talks about Social Security and the Golden Age: An Essay on the New American Demographic ($9.95 Fulcrum ISBN 1-55591-589-2); and former Governor Lamm talks about his controversial book, Two Wands, One Nation: An Essay on Race and Community in America ($9.95 Fulcrum ISBN 1-55591-585-x).

We met former Colorado Governor Richard Lamm when he visited the Tattered Cover Bookstore in Denver. You can listen to him talk about Two Wands, One Nation: An Essay on Race and Community in America here: http://www.authorsontourlive.com/?p=57

[Missmath144 · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent. How anyone can call Lamn a racist when he has devoted his life to civil rights law is beyond me. And how a university (DU) can say that an article by a professor is "too controversial" to publish in a campus publication baffles me. Lamn has one simple premise: If there are two magic wands and you can only choose one (No question that you would like to have both, but IF you can only choose one), would you want the wand that immediately does away with all racism or the wand that makes poor minorities innately value education. He argues that the latter would be more effective for long-term equality. Is that such a horrific thought? Think about it.