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A few weeks ago, we called attention to a review of Claire Nouvian's The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss in the print version of Discover magazine. Today, we noticed that the review, complete with a gallery of images excerpted from the book, is available online. Surf over to Discover magazine to gaze into the depths. Even more images are available at www.thedeepbook.org.
Mike Royko, Pulitzer prize winning journalist and author, died ten years ago today—on April 29, 1997. Royko, a man whom Jimmy Breslin called "the best journalist of his time," was one of the most thorough and incisive chroniclers of the American experience over his long career, writing successively for the Chicago Daily News, the Chicago Sun-Times, and the Chicago Tribune.
A few days ago the McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum assembled family, friends, and former colleagues for a tribute to Royko. Rick Kogan, Carol Marin, and Sam Sianis (owner of the Billy Goat tavern) were among the speakers.
The Chicagoland blog published by the Chicago Reader had a nice piece about Royko, pointing out the continuing relevance of his progressive views and insightful writing. Tributes have also appeared in, of course, the Tribune and the Sun-Times—pieces that are remarkably different in focus—the Trib on his writing, the Sun-Times on his personality.
The University of Chicago Press was pleased publish two volumes of the best of Royko's columns; One More Time: The Best of Mike Royko and its encore, For the Love of Mike: More of the Best of Mike Royko. You can sample a few classic Royko columns on our website—such as his column on the ex-Cub factor, a discourse on the Chicago hotdog, the day Jackie Robinson came to Wrigley Field, and the unveiling of the Picasso. Read excerpts from One More Time and excerpts from For the Love of Mike.
It is widely known that acclaimed film critic and author Roger Ebert has been fighting a fierce battle with cancer ever since 2002. For four years Ebert was able to endure treatment while continuing to host his TV show as well as publish his most recent book, Awake in the Dark: The Best of Roger Ebert. But 2006 found him bedridden after undergoing a series of more serious surgeries for his condition. All the while his audiences have eagerly awaited his return to the cinema, and as the Chicago Tribune's Mark Caro reports, they finally received their wish. Caro reports:
It was about 15 minutes before the opening of the 9th Annual Roger Ebert's Overlooked Film Festival when the festival's namesake quietly entered the theater from the back, marking his first public appearance since cancer surgery on his jaw in June. … Several surgeries later, the 64-year-old film critic—who has since appeared only sporadically in the Chicago Sun-Times and not at all on his syndicated television show Ebert & Roeper—still can't speak or completely close his mouth. Yet he was back where he grew up and attended the University of Illinois, wearing a blue blazer with a peach-colored handkerchief in the pocket and walking slowly down the theater aisle dispensing handshakes and hugs to those from near and far who came to see him and the movies he selected for five days of viewing.
We are glad to see that that one of our favorite film critics is back on his feet. And we can't wait for his next book!
Publishers Weekly recently ran a positive review of James Longenbach's most recent collection of poems Draft of a Letter. Praising one of the central themes of the work the PW reviewer writes:
This third book by noted critic and poet Longenbach is a collection of lyrics presenting conversations between an eternal soul and that soul's embodied, temporal self. When this idiosyncratic fragmentation of "the mind thinking" works, the results are lovely, intimate and distilled, as in the title poem, when the soul informs us, "If you say the word death/ In heaven,/ Nobody understands"; or in "Second Draft," when the embodied self explains, "…I said// Being mortal,/ I aspire to/ Mortal things.// I need you,/ Said my soul,/ If you're telling the truth."
Indeed, in Draft of a Letter Longenbach has fashioned an introspective and personal dialogue that simultaneously results in an unusually inviting and accessible new work.
Last Sunday, April 22, the New York Post ran a review of Angus McLaren's new book Impotence: A Cultural History. Praising McLaren's unprecedented history of male sexual impotence, its causes, and cures, reviewer Nick Gillespie calls Impotence an "erudite, entertaining, and insightful study of what's now been medicalized as 'erectile dysfunction.'" Gillespie's review continues:
"Western culture," writes McLaren, a history professor at Canada's University of Victoria, "has simultaneously regarded impotence as life's greatest tragedy and life's greatest joke." In discussing impotence from Roman times (when a hard man was good to find, regardless of the object of his affections) to the Middle Ages (when Church officials would order suspect husbands to perform in front of clergy) to our current era of little blue pills (whose furious rise in sales has already started to decline), McLaren has written a path-breaking history of masculinity.
Updated May 1: We now have an online feature drawn from the book: "Two Millennia of Impotence Cures." Enjoy!
Just in time for Earth Day, Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine ran a fascinating and beautifully illustrated cover story on Steve Goodman, world renowned biologist, conservationist, and editor of our recently published The Natural History of Madagascar—the authoritative guide to one of the planets most diverse ecosystems. With years of field work deep in the Malagasy forests under his belt, as the Tribune article notes, Goodman has become the driving force behind efforts to document the hundreds of species endemic to the island, and to develop long term plans for their conservation; efforts that make him and his work easily appropriate for an Earth Day feature. Laurie Goering wrote in the Tribune:
[Steve Goodman], who works as the Field Museum's only field biologist, thinks of himself as a Victorian-era naturalist for the modern age. Hefting a machete, he goes where next-to-no-one has gone before, takes a good look around and usually comes back with a collecting tub full of new species. Over the years, he has helped discover nearly 300 and scientifically describe almost 50.Madagascar, where he has lived and worked for 15 years, is his ideal habitat. The California-sized island off the east coast of Africa has some of the world's most unusual and least-known flora and fauna, from lemurs that call like humpback whales to bats with suckers on their wings. … [But] not long after arriving in Madagascar, Goodman realized two key things were missing on the island: basic knowledge about its flora and fauna and a long-term plan to protect them. Having led the battle to ease the first problem, he's now focusing much of his energy on the second.
What little remains of Madagascar's original landscape is fast vanishing as the island's ever-growing population—now 17 million—struggles to find space to farm, land on which to graze cattle, and trees to cut for charcoal.
Addressing such problems through the story of the island's fascinating and controversial ecological history, The Natural History of Madagascar collects essays by the world's most prominent experts in the field, engaging them in detailed discussions of conservation efforts in Madagascar and providing the most comprehensive, up-to-date synthesis of the island's vast natural treasures.
The current issue of Playboy reviews Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion by Jeffrey J. Kripal and gives it a four-bunny rating. Not bad for the J. Newton Rayzor Professor in Religious Studies at Rice University. Playboy advises:
Esalen Institute … was ground zero of the 1960s social revolution: the sweaty hot-tub commingling of free love, tantric yoga, Buddhist meditation and Gestalt therapy—as well as the academy for the propagation of the human-potential movement. Outlaw all-stars like Aldous Huxley, Allen Ginsberg and Hunter S. Thompson felt the pull of the place. Now scholar Jeffrey Kripal has produced the first all-encompassing history of Esalen: its intellectual, social, personal, literary and spiritual passages. Kripal brings us up-to-date and takes us deep beneath historical surfaces in this definitive, elegantly written book.
At least, we think it's in the current issue of Playboy. We combed the website for the magazine for several hours—it's a distracting place—but we didn't find it. If you see it, let us know, OK?
Read an excerpt from the book. And have a good weekend.
Lee Miller's life embodied all the contradictions and complications of the twentieth century: a model and photographer, muse and reporter, sexual adventurer and domestic goddess, she was also America's first female war correspondent. Carolyn Burke, a biographer and art critic, here reveals how the muse who inspired Man Ray, Cocteau, and Picasso could be the same person who unflinchingly photographed the horrors of Buchenwald and Dachau. Burke captures all the verve and energy of Miller's life: from her early childhood trauma to her stint as a Vogue model and art-world ingénue, from her harrowing years as a war correspondent to her unconventional marriages and passion for gourmet cooking. A lavishly illustrated story of art and beauty, sex and power, Modernism and Surrealism, Lee Miller illuminates an astonishing woman's journey from art object to artist.
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An extended meditation on how death affects those left behind, Under Sleep is a skillfully understated, beautifully rendered elegy for the poet’s partner. Formally inventive and technically sophisticated, Daniel Hall attends to the power of death to haunt every perception. The poet’s voice registers as though he were walking on the bottom of the ocean, in a state of mind somewhere "under sleep," in a kind of waking dream. In Hall’s hands, isolated moments of perception bloom into truly touching love elegies.
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Adding to the long list of positive reviews of Philip Gossett's new book Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera, in this month's Literary Reviewcritic Patrick O'Connor rains his praise on Gossett's extraordinary study of the Italian opera. O'Connor writes:
[Divas and Scholars is] a very personal and wide-ranging study of the great nineteenth-century Italian composers, and the problems and challenges facing those who decide to study their music beyond the available printed scores.… The depth and scope of Gossett's book, on which he has been working for over twenty years, makes it one that will be of immense value to anyone approaching the subject of opera in the so-called age of bel-canto. Although the minute detail of some of the individual music examples he chooses may be beyond even the informed opera aficionado, he writes so clearly, and with such vigor, that the arguments about transpositions, cuts, translations and interpolations, take on something of the feel of detective work.
And indeed Gossett's work is both extensive enough to enthrall aficionados of Italian opera and passionate enough to captivate newcomers seeking a reliable introduction to it—in all its incomparable grandeur and timeless allure.
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Reviewing one of this season's most exciting releases from the Press, Discover magazine's Richard Ellis has much to say about explorer and journalist Claire Nouvian's new book The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss. His review of this fascinating photo voyage to the ocean's darkest depths, like other reviews of the book, praises the hundreds of vibrant color images gracing its pages. Ellis writes:
Each of the 200-odd photographs in this book is in color. Bejeweled creatures—squid, comb jellies, octopuses, and tube worms—leap off the black pages in such a luminescent rainbow that you can't help but realize that the "blackness" of the depths is a misnomer. In many cases, photographs of these organisms appear in this book for the first time anywhere. …Such intimate photographs are surely the book's triumph. But an articulate and informative commentary accompanies them. The many short chapters have been written by the world's foremost marine scientists.
And indeed, with expert discussion on a variety of aspects of the deep sea—from the techniques of human exploration to discussion of hydrothermal vents and bioluminescence— The Deep is an exotic yet authoritative excursion to one of earth's last undiscovered frontiers.
Don't miss the Web site for The Deep where you can view some of the images included in the book, learn more about the author, read more reviews, and order a copy of this fascinating book.
The April 6 Times Literary Supplement carried an appreciative review of Holt N. Parker's translation of The Birthday Book—an entertaining third-century treatise on all aspects of the birthday. Roman grammarian and writer Censorinus originally wrote the book as a birthday gift for a friend, and TLS reviewer Karl Galinsky notes that Parker's translation qualifies as "the perfect present for someone who has everything." Galinsky writes:
The range of topics and their constellation offers something for everybody, whether in quaint "Ripley's Believe or Not" fashion or truly useful information that is not simply esoteric.Parker and the University of Chicago Press have entered into the spirit of this enterprise nicely. The book is produced handsomely in small format, and the text is interspersed with some helpful diagrams and illustrations. In addition, there is a useful glossary and notes that do not smother.
We previously posted an excerpt from the book: Censorinus's meditation on the puzzle of the chicken or the egg.
Publishers Weekly recently ran a review of the latest from authors Dorothy L. Cheney and Robert M. Seyfarth, Baboon Metaphysics: The Evolution of a Social Mind. Ever since Jane Goodall's groundbreaking work, there have been a plethora of books studying the social lives of primates, but the PW review notes that in Baboon Metaphysics Cheney and Seyfarth's deft combination of social drama and scientific study makes this book stand out. From PW:
Lovers' quarrels and murder, greed and social climbing: baboon society has all the features that make a mainstream novel a page-turner. The question Cheney and Seyfarth ask, however, is more demanding: how much of baboon behavior is instinctive, and how much comes from actual thought? Are baboons self-aware?… While describing important research about baboon cognition and social relations, this book charms as much as it informs.
Indeed, Baboon Metaphysics delivers an unprecedented and compelling glimpse into the mind of another species.
According to a recent press release from the U.S. Postal Service, David Henkin, author of The Postal Age: The Emergence of Modern Communications in Nineteenth-Century America will receive the first ever Rita Lloyd Moroney Award for scholarship on the history of the United States postal system. The press release states the award is "designed to encourage scholarship on the history of the United States postal system and to raise awareness about the significance of the postal system in American life." And certainly Henkin's nuanced history of the burgeoning nineteenth-century postal network does just that. Drawing on original letters and diaries from the period, as well as public discussions of the expanding postal system, Henkin tells the story of how the postal network transformed nineteenth-century American society, laying the foundation for the interconnectedness that now defines our ever-evolving world of telecommunications.
We have an excerpt from the book.
Jeffrey Kripal has an interesting essay in the current Chronicle of Higher Education touching on some of the topics of his new book Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion. Among other things, the essay examines the intellectual and spiritual roots of the Esalen Institute—the world-famous center for alternative and experiential education that is the focus of Kripal's book.
Kripal points out that the "secular mysticism" cultivated at the institute is a spiritual trend that can be traced deep in the history of American culture—back to nineteenth-century American Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson. According to Kripal, Emerson was a believer in a "democratic, individualized form of spirituality that is fundamentally open to present and future revelations, not just past ones"; a system of belief which the institute's founders, Michael Murphy and Richard Price, also embraced in a "secular mysticism that is deeply conversant with democracy, religious pluralism, and modern science."
The fame of Esalen, however, bloomed in the the 1960s and '70s when Esalen was made one with American popular culture, becoming more sensational than mystic:
People of all ages come from all over the world to learn, heal, explore, chant, dance, drum, massage, and meditate, and many of them eventually find themselves bathing together in outdoor, cliff-top hot tubs in full view of the sea—swimsuits optional. A parade of colorful characters have written, talked, thought, and sang their way through the Esalen story, people like Henry Miller, Aldous Huxley, Alan Watts, Jack Kerouac, Hunter S. Thompson, Joan Baez, Fritz Perls, Ida Rolf, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Terence McKenna (a modern-day shaman who advocated the use of psychotropic plants), to name just a few.
But, says Kripal, "Esalen's activist, intellectual, and metaphysical dimensions have struck me as both the most significant and, oddly, the least-known aspects of its story." As a "research laboratory" for the human potential movement, "Esalen played a catalytic role in gestalt and humanistic psychology in the early 60s, educational reform in the late 60s, the embryonic alternative-medicine movement of the early 70s, and the development of citizen diplomacy with the Soviet Union in the late 70s, 80s, and 90s." Esalen, for instance, was a sponsor of Boris Yeltsin's transformative 1989 tour of the United States. The institute has also played an active role in the environmental movement.
And the hot tubs are still there on the cliffs of Big Sur.
To learn more about this fascinating hothouse of contemporary culture read Kripal's full article online at the Chronicle 's Web site, in preparation for the full experience of Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion. We also have an excerpt from the book.
In 2005 the Boston Globe published an editorial lamenting the lack of English translations of foreign literature. "In a literary global world, one is what one reads. And in the United States, foreign fare is too scarce." The Globe, however, did single out one exemplary program—the National Endowment for the Arts translation grants—and one of its recipients—Patrick Barron, who used his grant money to translate contemporary Italian poet Andrea Zanzotto—as indication that translation is alive and well. Now, all of Barron's translations of this inestimable modern master are available in The Selected Poetry and Prose of Andrea Zanzotto: A Bilingual Edition.
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The March 31 Boston Globe featured an article reviewing several new books about urban gentrification and its complex impact on the politics of race and class in contemporary urban America. These works together create, in the words of reviewer Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, "a more nuanced picture of gentrification."
Venkatesh praises Mary Pattillo, author of Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City, for her detailed examination of this issue through her first-hand account of conflict, cooperation, and community building in Chicago's North Kenwood-Oakland (NKO) neighborhood—a rapidly changing African American community on Chicago's South Side. From the review:
Pattillo eschews most norms of social scientific objectivity by taking up residence in NKO. She is a homeowner and secretary of a local neighborhood association with great influence over local development—not to mention a Northwestern University professor. …Pattillo acknowledges her complicated role, as both interested party and analyst. But through her experience we see how complicated life can be for the black middle class.
In her neighborhood, Pattillo and other newly-arriving homeowners, many of whom find themselves sandwiched between empty lots and dilapidated, low-income housing projects, are caught between two motivations: the wish to live in an area with decent stores, well-maintained parks, and adequate city services; and the ethical pull of advocating on behalf of those poorer blacks who might be displaced if the neighborhood continues to gentrify.
Ultimately, Black on the Block argues that while these fissures have come to define the black community, the reality is that many African Americans choose participation over abdication and involvement over withdrawal—even when disagreements become bitter and acrimonious.
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Early humans lived in the Stone Age. We, it seems, are stuck in the Viagra Age. Turn on the television at any hour and you're likely to be invited to join in a very frank conversation about impotence, as celebrities from Rush Limbaugh and Bob Dole to Jay Leno and Mike Ditka have for a decade been leading America in an orgy of public confessions, pharmaceutical testimonials, and late-night jokes. But as Angus McLaren shows us in Impotence: A Cultural History, the first history of the subject, the failure of men to rise to the occasion has been an irresistible topic since the dawn of humanity.
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Updated May 1: We now have an online feature drawn from the book: "Two Millennia of Impotence Cures." Enjoy!
After months of anticipation the moment you've all been waiting for has arrived—the winners of the raffle hosted by The Chicago Manual of Style Online were announced today at approximately 3:00 pm Central Time in the boardroom of the University of Chicago Press. Not one but two lucky individuals were chosen at random from a pool of respondents to the recent CMOS Online survey. The winners receive up to one hundred dollars worth of free books from the Press, that's right, one hundred dollars worth of FREE BOOKS. Choosing the winning tickets was none other than Director of the Books Division of the Press, Mr. Bob Lynch. In his press release, Mr. Lynch stated that he was pleased to present the awards on behalf of the CMOS staff and thanked the lucky winners for their time spent helping to improve the CMOS Online user experience.
Congratulations!
Mary Pattillo is a Newsweek Woman of the 21st Century because of her critically acclaimed last book, Black Picket Fences, which changed forever the way many of us think about the black middleclass in America today. In Black on the Block, Pattillo returns to the South Side of Chicago to explore how class conflicts within the black community are dramatically changing the shape and terms of racial solidarity. Her focus is the work that more affluent members of the black community are doing to lift historically impoverished and dilapidated neighborhoods out of abject poverty—and the tensions that arise between poorer and middleclass blacks when they do so. Black on the Block explores the often heated battles between haves and have-nots, home owners and apartment dwellers, and newcomers and old timers as they clash over the political implications of gentrification and reaching out to white economic power bases.
Read the press release. We also have an excerpt from the book.
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has released its list of 2007 Fellows and we are pleased to find that ten University of Chicago Press authors have received fellowships. According to the Guggenheim website, "the Guggenheim Fellowship program helps to provide Fellows with blocks of time in which they can work with as much creative freedom as possible." Recipients include:
Shadi Bartsch, author of The Mirror of the Self: Sexuality, Self-Knowledge, and the Gaze in the Early Roman Empire, and co-editor of Erotikon: Essays on Eros, Ancient and Modern
Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi, author of By Words Alone: The Holocaust in Literature
Michael Gorra, author of After Empire: Scott, Naipaul, Rushdie
Verlyn Klinkenborg, author of The Last Fine Time
Margaretta M. Lovell, author of A Visitable Past: Views of Venice by American Artists, 1860-1915
Michael McCann, author of Rights at Work: Pay Equity Reform and the Politics of Legal Mobilization
Mary Louise Roberts, author of Civilization without Sexes: Reconstructing Gender in Postwar France, 1917-1927, and Disruptive Acts: The New Woman in Fin-de-Siecle France
Laurie Shannon, author of Sovereign Amity: Figures of Friendship in Shakespearean Contexts
Kay Kaufman Shelemay, author of Let Jasmine Rain Down: Song and Remembrance among Syrian Jews
David Gordon White, author of Kiss of the Yogini: "Tantric Sex" in its South Asian Contexts, The Alchemical Body: Siddha Traditions in Medieval India, and Myths of the Dog-Man
Our warm congratulations! View the complete list of 2007 Guggenheim fellows.
Draft of a Letter is a book about belief—not belief in the unknowable but belief in what seems bewilderingly plain. Pondering the bodies we inhabit, the words we speak, these poems discover infinitude in the most familiar places. The revelation is disorienting and, as a result, these poems talk to themselves, revise themselves, fashioning a dialogue between self and soul that opens outward to include other voices, lovers, children, angels, and ghosts. For James Longenbach, great distance makes the messages we send sweeter. To be divided from ourselves is never to be alone. "If the kingdom is in the sky," says the body to the soul, "Birds will get there before you." "In time," says the awakening soul, "I liked my second / Body better / Than the first." To live, these poems insist, is to arise every day to the strange magnificence of the people and places we thought we knew best. Draft of a Letter is an unsettled and radiant paradiso, imagined in the death-shadowed, birth-haunted middle of a long life.
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Hard Bread, Peg Boyers’s debut poetry collection, with verse spoken in the imagined voice of the Italian writer Natalia Ginzburg, was widely praised for its inspired ventriloquism and brilliant lyricism. In Honey with Tobacco, Boyers’s own intensely personal voice emerges in three strikingly distinctive variants. The first part of the book is the most explicitly autobiographical, bringing together poems that explore the poet’s Cuban American experience and a childhood marked by travel, the tropics, and varieties of disenchantment. The middle sequence of poems concerns a mother, a father, and a son, a postmodern holy family whose ordeals are evoked in a terse, terrifying narrative. The final section of the book confronts age, desire, and regret in a series of personal poems that plumb baser human instincts and the speakers’ determination to dwell in darkness, when necessary, without abandoning the sacred.
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From the UK comes another review of Isolarion: A Different Oxford Journey by James Attlee, this one in the Times. The review praises Attlee's unconventional travelogue for turning his observations about Oxford's Cowley Road—an unexplored side-street just minutes from the author's home—into a fascinating journey across space and time. From Elizabeth Garner's review:
On the surface, Isolarion plays with the thrill of voyeurism. We follow Attlee behind closed doors into unknown worlds: from New Age immersion in a flotation tank to the brash neon-lit world of the porn shop, to the smoky, hypnotic experience of a reggae concert. …But Isolarion is more than a piece of observational journalism. Attlee's encounters lead to thoughtful investigations of the human condition. A visit to a jewellers allows a digression on love and love tokens. A vivid, sensual description of a street carnival becomes an insight into multiculturalism, and blends into a meditation on the nature of family. …
Ultimately, [Attlee] weaves together a subtle, understated tale of spiritual survival: peace and understanding come from an investigation of where we are. In an age in which air travel opens up the world, and holidays are to escape the mundane, Attlee encourages us to look at the riches on our doorstep.
Another piece about Attlee and Isolarion was published in the Oxford Times.
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As reported by Nina Bernstein in the New York Times today, Eric L. Muller is filing an amicus curiae brief in the case of Turkmen v. Ashcroft, a class-action lawsuit by Muslim immigrants who were swept up and held on alleged immigration violations in the wake of the attacks of September 11.
Muller wrote the brief on behalf of Karen Korematsu-Haigh, Jay Hirabayashi, and Holly Yasui, children of the three Japanese Americans who unsuccessfully challenged racial curfew and detention in court during World War II (Korematsu v. United States).
According to the story in the Times, the amicus brief argues that the ruling by a federal district judge in New York in 2006 "overlooks the nearly 20-year-old declaration by the United States Congress and the president of the United States that the racially selective detention of Japanese aliens during World War II was a 'fundamental injustice' warranting an apology and the payment of reparations."
Eric Muller has a posting about the brief on his blog. He is the author of Free to Die for Their Country: The Story of the Japanese American Draft Resisters in World War II. We have an excerpt from his book.
A founding document of modern libertarianism, Friedrich Hayek's The Road to Serfdom has in the sixty years since its publication established itself as an unimpeachable classic in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics. From the moment of its publication in 1944, when Hayek's passionate warnings about the dangers of collectivism and centralized government ran directly counter to prevailing opinion, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers. It became a surprise best seller in the year of its release, and it has continued to exercise tremendous influence on political and economic thought ever since. The publication of this new, authoritative edition of The Road to Serfdom will allow adherents and detractors alike to seriously reflect on Hayek, reconsider his legacy, and appraise his continuing relevance in the twenty-first century.
Read the press release. Read an excerpt on the publishing history of the book.