Reviews for Depression to Cold War

The average rating for Depression to Cold War based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-03-09 00:00:00 Thomas Barrett I read almost the entire first part and the conclusion. The introduction says "first English study on Michel Leiris" but this is a half-truth. You literally need to know how to speak French to read this book. There's loads of untranslated French and then English analyses of this untranslated French. Entire blocks of paragraphs of French untranslated, and then he talks about it as if it wasn't in French. I have no idea why he decided to do this - my guess this is for grad students and even professionals who want to avoid the "problem of translation". In other words, this isn't for undergrads - well I guess it could be if you knew French. As for the text itself, from what I could understand it had the form of a good analysis, but it dropped down differance and rhizomatic like it was no thing, so probably an expectation of having a solid background in Continental Philosophy is expected. From what I got out of this, Leiris was sort of a fringe surrealist who was influential in the movement, and he wrote huge autobiographies. "Writing the self" I'm pretty sure is just an academic way of saying "writing an autobiography". Wish I could give this a high score.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-09-12 00:00:00 Ramjivarma Dumpala It is amazing to read the reflections of someone who was present for so much American history, and Scotty Reston was one of those people. These are his memoirs from a life of reporting, mostly for the New York Times. It is not an easy read, but what resonates is how in the early 1990's (and before) he was writing about issues in America that still are present today. This is a well written, interesting look at American history, and his connections with many leading figures in the world provide excellent personal stories.