@HeerJeet Bellow taught for 30 years at the Committee of Social Thought. You just want to separate what you like from what you dont.
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@StephenMarche Well even if I agree with a novelist's politics (Atwood, say) I don't read them for their political analysis or as historians1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@StephenMarche It's a powerful novel about family dynamics but not very reliable guide to what the New Left was all about (nor should it be)2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@HeerJeet And the same phony self-righteousness threatens to overwhelm us again.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@StephenMarche Hippies barely exist as plausible figures in novel. Book is about father baffled by daughter who does strange, violent things3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@StephenMarche Right, which is one reason I don't take the book seriously as political history. Wethermen weren't Jainists.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@StephenMarche Historians of Weather Underground have tended to dispute Roth -- which I think is also a misreading. He's not writing history
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