tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152270.post115643926216254605..comments2024-03-26T12:23:35.307-05:00Comments on The Buck Stops Here: Bush and BooksStuart Buckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05731724396708879386noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152270.post-1156854904688171492006-08-29T07:35:00.000-05:002006-08-29T07:35:00.000-05:00The problem with many intellectuals, at least ones...The problem with many intellectuals, at least ones in academia, is that they're constantly reading journal articles, chapters in anthologies, and parts of books relevant to their research while ignoring the rest. Academics read a lot more than their list of finished books would show. I don't finish that many complete books, but I read an awful lot despite that.Jeremy Piercehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03441308872350317672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152270.post-1156647175927309742006-08-26T21:52:00.000-05:002006-08-26T21:52:00.000-05:00Depends on the book. If it's a 200-page book writ...Depends on the book. If it's a 200-page book written in a Malcolm Gladwell style, then I'd give it maybe 1.5 hours. If it's a 400-page academic book, then quite a bit longer. <BR/><BR/>As for July and August . . . hmmm . . . as best as I can recall: <BR/><BR/>The Long Emergency, by James Howard Kunstler.<BR/><BR/>The Bottomless Well, by Peter Huber and Mark Mills.<BR/><BR/> Multiple Regression : A Primer, by Paul Allison<BR/><BR/>Real Food, by Nina Planck<BR/><BR/>Get a Life!, by David Burke and Jean Lotus<BR/><BR/>Blacked Out: Dilemmas of Race, Identity, and Success at Capital High, by Signithia Fordham<BR/><BR/>Bridging the Achievement Gap, edited by John Chubb and Tom Loveless<BR/><BR/>Ain't No Makin' It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood, by Jay MacLeod<BR/><BR/>Law's Quandary, by Steven D. Smith<BR/><BR/>The Education Gap: Vouchers and Urban Schools, by William Howell and Paul Peterson<BR/><BR/>Forging Links: African American Children Clinical Developmental Perspectives, edited by Angela M. Neal-Barnett<BR/><BR/>Constructing School Success : The Consequences of Untracking Low Achieving, by Hugh Mehan and several others<BR/><BR/>Taught by America : A Story of Struggle and Hope in Compton, by Sarah Sentilles<BR/><BR/>Rappin' and stylin' out;: Communication in urban Black America, edited by Thomas Kochman<BR/><BR/>Kwanzaa and Me: A Teachers Story, by Vivian Gussin Paley<BR/><BR/>Black Resistance in High School: Forging a Separatist Culture, by R. Patrick Solomon<BR/><BR/>Our children's burden; studies of desegregation in nine American communities, by Raymond W. Mack<BR/><BR/>Saving Our Environment from Washington, by David Schoenbrod<BR/><BR/>Never Eat Alone, by Keith Ferrazzi<BR/><BR/>Politics, Markets and America's Schools, by John E. Chubb, Terry M. Moe<BR/><BR/>On Christian Truth, by Harry Blamires<BR/><BR/>When I Can Read My Title Clear: Literacy, Slavery, and Religion in the Antebellum South, by Janet Duitsman Cornelius<BR/><BR/>Chasing the Wind: Regulating Air Pollution in the Common Law State, by Noga Morag-Levine<BR/><BR/>The Politics of School Desegreation, by Robert L. Crain<BR/><BR/>Beyond Acting White: Reframing the Debate on Black Student Achievement, edited by Erin Horvat and Carla O'Connor<BR/><BR/>Anyway, that's all that I can remember right now.Stuart Buckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05731724396708879386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152270.post-1156618431360136942006-08-26T13:53:00.000-05:002006-08-26T13:53:00.000-05:00It takes you about three hours to finish an averag...It takes you about three hours to finish an average book? Out of curiosity, what did you read in July and August?Scrutineerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16556970103045514403noreply@blogger.com