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In Our Time by Tom Wolfe

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In Our Time
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Tom Wolfe

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Brendan's review

Mar 29, 2017

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bookshelves: non-fiction, art, humor

Collected social commentary from the 1960's and 1970's. Though more widely known as a novelist, it's clear he was skilled at drawing as well. His humor is hit-or-miss. I wish he had written more in depth about certain topics that he merely mentioned in passing.

Starting with the publication of Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago in 1973, the repressive nature of socialism as a monolithic system of government became too obvious to ignore any longer. By the 1970s there was no possible detour around concentration camps, and under genuine socialism the concentration camps were found again and again - in the Soviet Union, in Cambodia, in Cuba, in the new united Vietnam.

Among other things Jonestown was an example of a definition well known to sociologists of religion: a cult is a religion with no political power.

The chief lesson of Watergate: the stability of the American political system is profound.

"The Invisible Wife" stands out as worth reading.

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February 17, 2017 – Shelved

March 10, 2017 –Started Reading

March 11, 2017 –Finished Reading

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