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I've been reading William Bunge's Fitzgerald the past week or so, in order to prepare for a discussion on the book in GRAD Group. It's a geographer's look at a neighborhood in Detroit in the late 1960s and early 1970s, examining the social problems that contributed to its current state. He was exiled to Canada shortly after the publication of the book and blacklisted from the discipline because it was "too revolutionary." It's about 1/50th as revolutionary as some of the stuff out there today.
A thought from Bunge:
"We must realize that Americans are not God's personal gift to the human race, nor are we its executioners." That's in the intro, and it sets the tone for the book.
And by the way, I successfully weighed myself on a home scale today for the first time in years. I had been running 420 according to the scale at Pet Guards and the zoo (yes, I had to use animal scales for a while). Now, according to the scale in our home, I am 399.8 pounds. It's an improvement.
"We must realize that Americans are not God's personal gift to the human race, nor are we its executioners." That's in the intro, and it sets the tone for the book.
And by the way, I successfully weighed myself on a home scale today for the first time in years. I had been running 420 according to the scale at Pet Guards and the zoo (yes, I had to use animal scales for a while). Now, according to the scale in our home, I am 399.8 pounds. It's an improvement.
Posted by Your Friendly Neighborhood DJ on October 10, 2006 12:18 PM | Permalink
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