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...stopped his whoring to the white world, once he has chosen "to see only blackness," and "to live right out of his insides." The novel itself is a 2000 mile an hour trip through all the shit it takes to finally make that choice, and it's all the reader can do to keep up with the pace...
...Very, very cool. The hero, George Washington, can now walk off into the sunset, feeling very beautiful inside, knowing he can make it on his own terms and tell the white world to go sit on its own white ass. The author, however, has seen to it that the reader is not left in quite so secure a position. He has made quite sure that you never know where you stand in relation to the book; although one minute you may be laughing with him at all the jive, at all the perversion, the next minute he's laughing...
...amazed that the CRIMSON could have printed, in the interests of "balanced" journalism, the April 10 letter from two Cuban exiles. There are enough magazines like Reader's Digest and the Harvard Independent to publish their views...
...uniqueness as a polemic to the fact that it is first and foremost about people, which (as often as we may forget) is also what politics is about. Cowan's development as a human being, which encompasses his development as a political activist, becomes all-important to the reader. Parts of the book read like a diary and relate to the main theme of radicalization in non-analytical, human terms. One recurring thread is a joyfully gentle love tribute to his wife Rachel, who shares and resonates his experiences. Wherever Cowan has appeared recently, strangers seem to want subsequent news...
...America's place in the world, Cowan had to become angry and defiant. And his book might for the first time explain why that is so to worried parents, might make radicalization a lot more real to those people who smile and explain who they are basically "apolitical." A reader would have to believe that nothing is seriously wrong with America and its government (that a bunch of haircuts and baths wouldn't cure) to not be moved in profound ways...