{"product_id":"that-floating-bridge-paperback-softback","title":"That Floating Bridge - Paperback \/ softback","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlive to history in the making (and the weight of the past) this volume examines Obama's presidency and Lyndon Johnson's, the killing of Trayvon Martin and the death of Andrew Breitbart, Occupy Wall Street and \"America Beyond Capitalism.\" It presents essays, poems, and plays that speak to our times and challenge the liberal imagination. The title, \u003cem\u003eThat Floating Bridge,\u003c\/em\u003e evokes Representative John Lewis' line—\"Obama is what comes at the end of that bridge in Selma\"—as it quotes a track on Gregg Allman's \u003cem\u003eLow Country Blues\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003ewhich Scott Spencer lauds here in a review for the Ages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThat Floating Bridge's\u003c\/em\u003e peerless range of contributors includes Amiri Baraka, Gar Alperovitz, Bernard Avishai, Uri Avnery, Bill Ayers, Paul Berman, John Chernoff, Mark Dudzic, Carmelita Estrellita, Henry Farrell, Fr. Rick Frechette, Donna Gaines, David Golding, Eugene Goodheart, Lawrence Goodwyn, Lisa Guenther, Alec Harrington, Malcolm Harris, Casey Hayden, Christopher Hayes, Patterson Hood, Roxane Johnson, Ben Kessler, Bob Levin, Philip Levine, Bongani Madondo, Greil Marcus, Scott McLemee, Judy Oppenheimer, Jedediah Purdy, Nick Salvatore, Aram Saroyan, Tom Smucker, Fredric Smoler, Violet Socks, A. B. Spellman, Scott Spencer, Richard Torres, Jesmyn Ward, and Pablo Yglesias.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn account of how Franz Boas \"did more to combat race prejudice than any other person\" anchorsone section, but the volume also addresses devolutions of \"diversity\" linked with careerism in the art world and academe. An un-scholastic section titled \"Criticism of Life\"celebrates older and younger critics\/poets. Songs are key to this volume's good times. Music writing—ranging from Eddie Hinton's \u003cem\u003eVery Extremely Dangerous\u003c\/em\u003e to Berlioz's \u003cem\u003eRomeo and Juliet—\u003c\/em\u003eenhances the pleasures of this text.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45575788986606,"sku":"9781412851596","price":74.39,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9781412851596.jpg?v=1720959061","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/that-floating-bridge-paperback-softback","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}