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"Not Even Past" reveals more of Donne's humanity and his vulnerability while moving from one pulse-racing scene to the next. White prose engaged me from the first chapter and the second half of his novel carries the reader along like a bullet from a sniper's rifle/5(54). In Not Even Past, a leading historian of civil rights, race, and urban America offers a revealing and unflinchingly honest assessment of the culture and politics of race in the age of Obama, and of our prospects for a postracial by: 19th century 20th Century African American History american history Asia Asia & Middle East book review Brazil British Empire China Civil War Cold War Colonialism communism cultural history digital history Early Not even past book Europe Europe film gender history History of Science immigration India Islam Latin America Latin American History Mexico Not Even Past Public History race religion Russia slavery.

A timely, evocative, and beautifully written book, Not Even Past is essential reading for anyone interested in the Civil War and its role in American history. Sign up for more information on JHUP Books. Not Even Past: A History of the Department of English, The Ohio State University, – provides a thorough and fascinating institutional history of a program central to the mission of the university and a history of an entire complex discipline.

OSU’s Department of English is one of the largest and most prominent in the US and, in fact, the s: 0. In Not Even Past, award-winning historian Thomas Sugrue examines the paradox of race in Obama's America and how President Obama intends to deal with it.

Obama's Barack Obama, in his acclaimed campaign speech discussing the troubling complexities of race in America today, quoted William Faulkner's famous remark "The past isn't dead and buried/5.

Not Even Past is White's first book in 4 years and the first to feature Jackson Donne in nearly 7. It doesn't seem that long as White seamlessly brings us back into Donne's life. It doesn't seem that long as White seamlessly brings us back into Donne's life/5. "Not Even Past" reveals more of Donne's humanity and his vulnerability while moving from one pulse-racing scene to the next.

White prose engaged me from the first chapter and the second half of his novel carries the reader along like a bullet from a sniper's rifle/5(51).

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“Not Even Past is that rare edited collection where each successive essay holds to the standard of the rest, bringing with it insights and delights in every chapter. This book provides a very important and historically informed perspective.”Pages: "Not Even Past" is a short story by Tina Whittle, author of the Tai Randolph/Trey Seaver mysteries featuring gun shop owner Tai and former SWAT officer Trey.

It sets the stage for the fifth book in the series, RECKONING AND RUIN, available April from Poisoned Pen Press.5/5(9).

Not Even Past This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust () by Ben Wright In Eric Remarque’s novel, The Road Back, a group of veterans (now enrolled as students at a local university in Germany) quietly seethe at the back of a classroom while their professor eulogizes their fallen comrades.

Barack Obama, in his acclaimed campaign speech discussing the troubling complexities of race in America today, quoted William Faulkner's famous remark "The past isn't dead and buried.

In fact, it isn't even past." In Not Even Past, award-winning historian Thomas Sugrue examines the paradox of race in Obama's America and how President Obama intends to deal with it.

Obama's journey to the White. "Not Even Past is a thoughtful reflection on Barack Obama's rise to the presidency and what it tells us—and doesn't tell us—about the meaning and significance of race in the twenty-first-century United States.

Admirably concise and elegantly written, this book lays bare the mystique of the 'postracial' presidency without resorting to the kinds of unanchored generalizations and truisms that too often. Not Even Past  offers monthly features focusing on faculty research and teaching as well as weekly book recommendations, reviews of historical films, and stories about archival, visual, aural, and other documents that shed light on intriguing corners of the past.

Not Even Past: A History of the Department of English, The Ohio State University, – provides a thorough and fascinating institutional history of a program central to the mission of the university and a history of an entire complex ’s Department of English is one of the largest and most prominent in the US and, in fact, the world.

Not Even Past: Barack Obama and the Burden of Race Thomas J. Sugrue, Author. Princeton Univ. $ (p) ISBN More By and About This Author Buy this book. Barack Obama, in his acclaimed campaign speech discussing the troubling complexities of race in America today, quoted William Faulkner's famous remark "The past isn't dead and buried.

In fact, it isn't even past." In Not Even Past, award-winning historian Thomas Sugrue examines the paradox of race in Obama's America and how President Obama intends to deal with it. Not Even Past is a trenchant, wide-ranging survey of the history that binds us a nation while, at the same time, drives us apart.

Because it still needs proving now and again, Marrs’ book proves that the American Civil War is with us today as much as it was when it began a century and a half ago. Praise for NOT EVEN PAST “White is one of a group of younger writers reimagining the P.I.

novel by giving Donne solid connections to his culture (he’s not alienated from his world) and a moral self-awareness I think is more interesting than the traditional P.I. code of behavior. This book flies.”. "Not Even Past is a thoughtful reflection on Barack Obama's rise to the presidency and what it tells us—and doesn't tell us—about the meaning and significance of race in the twenty-first-century United States.

Admirably concise and elegantly written, this book lays bare the mystique of the 'postracial' presidency without resorting to the. In a novel by Sebastian Barry fromOn Canaan’s Side, a very old Irishwoman in America is writing her life story, a story of obscure survival through the dark, violent dramas of twentieth-century history, stretching back to “a thousand thousand moons ago, as one might say.” Among her memories are two images of tiny.

Not Even Past: In his speech, “A More Perfect Union,” Barack Obama quoted William Faulkner (“The past is not dead. In fact, it’s not even past.”) to embody the idea that even though leaders no longer need to list the racial injustices of the past, they 5/5.