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Introduction A man extraordinarily diversified in his interests
Interests Politics, History, Science, Philosophy, Literature, Art, Cinema, Music, Political Economy and Its Critiques, Satire, Comedy, Popular Culture, Psychology, Anthropology, Sociology, A Passion for Social Justice and Equality and Freedom for All Humankind
Favorite Movies Many -- possibly too many to say: The Sting, Monty Python's Life of Brian, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Charles Chaplin's Modern Times, Charles Chaplin's The Gold Rush, The Marx Brothers' Animal Crackers, The Marx Brothers' A Day At the Races, Peter Sellers in Being There, All of Peter Sellers' The Pink Panther movies, Luis Bunuel's The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Barbara Koppel's Harlan County-U.S.A., Matewan, Norma Rae, Spike Lee's Malcolm X, Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing, The Marx Brothers' Coconuts, The Color of Money, The Hustler, Hoffa, The Godfather, Godfather II, Godfather III, Scarface, The Natural, Field of Dreams, Ken Burns' 11-Part The Civil War, Ken Burns' 7-Part Baseball, Ken Burns' 7-Part Jazz, Ken Burns' 2-Part Mark Twain, American Masters' Gore Vidal, Either Ken Burns' or American Masters' PBS Two-Part Biographical Documentary on Jack Johnson, PBS 5-Part Series on Native American History Entitled We Shall Remain, PBS 2-Part Series on Reconstruction Entitled Reconstruction: The Second Civil War, Warren Beatty's Reds, Spartacus (The Original Movie)
Favorite Music A Love Supreme by John Coltrane, The Ninth Symphony by Beethoven, Pretty Much Any of Mozart's Piano Concertos, Billie Holiday's God Bless the Child, Billie Holiday's Strange Fruit, Pretty Much Any of Mozart's Symphonies, Pretty Much Any of Beethoven's Symphonies, Pretty Much Any of Vivaldi's Music, Pretty Much Any of Telleman's Music, Pretty Much Any of Miles Davis's Music, John Coltrane's Living Space, Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, Johann Sebastian Bach's Passacaglia in C Major (I think I got the titles right!), Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, Much More I Offhand Can't Think Of
Favorite Books Letters from the Earth by Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Lincoln by Gore Vidal, Capital (Volume One) by Karl Marx, Relativity: The Special and General Theories by Albert Einstein, General Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud, The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan, Frederick Douglass by William McFeely, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James McPherson, The Old Man: John Brown at Harpers Ferry by Truman Nelson, John Brown: Abolitionist by David S. Reynolds, Atheism: The Case Against God by George Smith, The Black Sheep by Honore de Balzac, Colonel Chabert by Honore de Balzac, Old Goriot by Honore de Balzac, Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac, Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, God Bless You Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut, Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi, Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut, Godless by Dan Barker, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 by Karl Marx, The History of the Russian Revolution by Leon Trotsky, The Fight for Socialism by Max Shachtman, Socialism on Trial by James P. Cannon, The State and Revolution by V. I. Lenin, The First Ten Years of American Communism: Report of a Participant by James P. Cannon, Labor's Giant Step: Twenty Years of the CIO by Art Preis, SDS by Kirkpatrick Sale, In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s by Clayborne Carson, Hollywood by Gore Vidal, The Golden Age by Gore Vidal, The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, The Panda's Thumb by Stephen Jay Gould, Ever Since Darwin by Stephen Jay Gould, Thomas Paine: Apostle of Freedom by Jack Fruchtman, All On Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery, Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist by Nick Salvatore, Rosa Luxemburg by Paul Froehlich, Karl Marx: The Story of His Life by Franz Mehring, Roll Jordan Roll: The World the Slaves Made by Eugene D. Genovese, The Political Economy of Slavery by Eugene D. Genovese, Live From Death Row by Mumia Abu-Jamal

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