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About Thaddeus Russell
See more books from this AuthorThey gave members of different races and ethnicities the chance to study and imitate one another and to indulge in what Russell terms “informal renegade behaviors.” The author links advances in personal freedom to these unbridled working-class heroes—and to a few other surprising figures as well,...
| Read Full Review of A Renegade History of the Uni...Russell (Out of the Jungle: Jimmy Hoffa and the American Working Class) shows how the Boston Massacre was instigated by a "motley rabble," argues that blackface minstrel shows embodied a sort of black lifestyle-envy, and that madams and prostitutes initiated gender equality in the Old West.
Mar 21 2011 | Read Full Review of A Renegade History of the Uni...“In the summer of 1957, a Baptist preacher in the segregated South issued a series of fier...
Sep 28 2010 | Read Full Review of A Renegade History of the Uni...“In the summer of 1957, a Baptist preacher in the segregated South issued a series of fiery sermons denouncing the laziness, promiscuity, criminality, drunkenness, slovenliness, and ignorance of Negroes,” says Thaddeus Russell;
Sep 28 2010 | Read Full Review of A Renegade History of the Uni...“In the summer of 1957, a Baptist preacher in the segregated South issued a series of fiery sermons denouncing the laziness, promiscuity, criminality, drunkenness, slovenliness, and ignorance of Negroes,” says Thaddeus Russell;
Sep 28 2010 | Read Full Review of A Renegade History of the Uni...“In the summer of 1957, a Baptist preacher in the segregated South issued a series of fiery sermons denouncing the laziness, promiscuity, criminality, drunkenness, slovenliness, and ignorance of Negroes,” says Thaddeus Russell;
Sep 28 2010 | Read Full Review of A Renegade History of the Uni...that between the individual and society.” He goes on to say that the founding of the United States “simply began the war [between pleasure and discipline] that continues today.” We recently reviewed a book about the Founding Fathers and the weeks leading up to July 2, 1776.
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Apr 26 2011 | Read Full Review of A Renegade History of the Uni...Russell doesn't endorse slavery, but he does write: "The beautiful irony of slavery was that it guaranteed food, shelter, clothing, health care, and child care for the enslaved - and even allowed for the acquisition of luxuries and money - without requiring the self-denial of 'free' labour."
Sep 20 2010 | Read Full Review of A Renegade History of the Uni...The first sign that Thaddeus Russell is self-consciously spoiling for a fight is his chosen title, implicitly opposed to Howard Zinn’s famous pageantry of American working-class resistance.
Oct 05 2010 | Read Full Review of A Renegade History of the Uni...Non-Fiction Robert McCrum The Guardian Read other users' reviews More like this Renegade: Henry Miller and the Making of Tropic of Cancer by Frederick Turner - r...
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