"Blues for America is a scholar's deft survey of everything that happened between the 1920s and the 1990s-depressions, repressions, segregation, and wars-and the resistance that arose to each in turn, related with surprising wit and an amazingly gracious turn of phrase. And by weaving in bits of autobiography, Dowd has given us much more."
--Barbara Ehrenreich
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Dowd, a radical economics professor who teaches at Johns Hopkins, has written a notably odd book. Much of it is a left-oriented economic and political history of the U.S. since WWI, relying on secondary sources. Dowd also inserts personal recollections, portraits and journalistic sidebars into the text and, increasingly, as the book proceeds, begins inserting his own stories into the main narrative. Because there are countless more coherent critiques of this American century, Dowd might better have concentrated on a more conventional memoir. He certainly has had memorable experiences, beginning with his WWII service, where he observed gratuitous murder, and the birth of the Cold War. Though he stresses that he had not favored the electoral aims of the Peace & Freedom Party, Dowd agreed to serve as running mate in the group's fledgling 1968 presidential campaign of Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver. He also reports a bizarre meeting with H. Ross Perot in 1970 in Indochina, as their paths crossed in peace/POW crusades. Born in 1919, the still-outraged author aims to criticize "the spread and deepening of greed and racism"; he concludes by arguing for a third political party to seek a society with greater equality and freedom.
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About the Author
Doug Dowd has taught at Johns Hopkins University School for Advanced International Studies in Bologna, Italy; University of California, Berkeley; University of California, Santa Cruz; San Jose State and San Francisco State Universities; and Cornell University, where he was Chair of the Economics Department. He has also received the Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships and is the author of The Waste of Nations: Dysfunction in the World Economy; The Twisted Dream: Capitalist Development in the United States Since 1776; and Modern Economic Problems in Historical Perspective.
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