Research Catalog

Title

Just three minutes, please : thinking out loud on public radio / Michael Blumenthal.

Author

Blumenthal, Michael

Publication

Morgantown, [West Virginia] : West Virginia University Press, 2014.

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Details

Additional Authors

West Virginia Public Broadcasting

Description

xii, 132 pages; 18 cm

Summary

What’s wrong with the contemporary American medical system? What does it mean when a state’s democratic presidential primary casts 40% of its votes for a felon incarcerated in another state? What’s so bad about teaching by PowerPoint? What is truly the dirtiest word in America? These are just a few of the engaging and controversial issues that Michael Blumenthal, poet, novelist, essayist, and law professor, tackles in this collection of poignant essays commissioned by West Virginia Public Radio. In these brief essays, Blumenthal provides unconventional insights into our contemporary political, educational, and social systems, challenging us to look beyond the headlines to the psychological and sociological realities that underlie our conventional thinking. As a widely published poet and novelist, Blumenthal brings along a lawyer’s analytical ability with his literary sensibility, effortlessly facilitating a distinction between the clichés of today’s pallid political discourse and the deeper realities that lie beneath. This collection will captivate and provoke those with an interest in literature, politics, law, and the unwritten rules of our social and political engagements.--Publisher website.

Uniform Title

• Essays. Selections
• Project Muse UPCC books

Alternative Title

Essays.

Subject

Social problems > United States

Note

• Consists of transcripts of the author's selected radio broadcasts on West Virginia Public Radio.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: I. Aches and Pains -- The Unkindest Cut of All -- The Quality of Our Mercy -- Sum of Its Parts -- Vote With Your Feet! -- The Lame of the Earth -- II. Almost Heaven -- The Wild, Not-So-Wonderful Whites of West Virginia -- Tale of Two Countries -- Voting, In Black and White -- Foul Play! -- III. Country of The Second Chance -- Unwired -- Country of the Second Chance -- Immigration Nation -- Some Truly Affirmative Action: A Farmer on the Supreme Court -- The Business of America -- BP and Our Human Shadow -- Change We Don't Believe In -- Taking Back the Saddle -- Right to Bear Harms -- The Dirtiest Word in America -- Gay Marriage and the Pursuit of Happiness -- The Sweetest Dream That Labor Knows -- Heroes with a Thousand Faces -- A Modest Proposal -- Encore! -- Lynched -- IV. Of Minds and Mindfulness -- A Mind of Winter -- College Days, Danger Days -- On-Line & On Point, But Way Off Course -- None of Your Business -- In Praise of Doing Nothing.

ISBN

• 9781938228773 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1938228774 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9781938228780 (epub) (canceled/invalid)
• 1938228782 (epub) (canceled/invalid)
• 9781938228797 (pdf) (canceled/invalid)
• 1938228790 (pdf) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2013035010

OCLC

• 860757245
• SCSB-11346058

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library