Our Votes, Our Guns: Robert Mugabe and the Tragedy ofZimbabwe By Martin Meredith. PublicAffairs, 243 pages, $26.00 By the time Robert Mugabe had led a guerrilla war againstIan Smith’s white regime in Rhodesia and spent 11 years in prison, whateveridealism he had known in his youth had been battered out of him. Though heconsidered himself […]
Carol Polsgrove
Carol Polsgrove, author of Divided Minds: Intellectuals and the Civil Rights Movement, is a journalism professor at Indiana University, Bloomington. She grew up in Nigeria, then a British colony.
Posted inFeatures
Posner Proves His Case
Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline By Richard A. Posner. Harvard University Press, 408 pages, $29.95 Richard A. Posner’s Public Intellectuals reminds me of my grandmother’s attic: here an elephant table brought home from Africa; there a cuckoo clock; all around, a miscellany of items collected under one roof. Alas, Posner, a judge on the […]
Posted inFeatures
Southern Exposures
The Last Days: A Son’s Story of Sin and Segregation at the Dawn of the New South, by Charles Marsh. Basic Books, 294 pages, $25.00. Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama/The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution, by Diane McWhorter. Simon and Schuster, 701 pages, $35.00. The white resistance to the civil rights movement has […]