Reviews of Political Books
I recall reading the word "anarchy" or "anarchism" or "anarchist" when I was 16 (1969 or 1970) & realizing that I'm an anarchist. It wasn't until 1976 that I even met another anarchist. Things have changed since then. Why, heck, you can't turn around without seeing a vinegar-soaked-bandana dispenser on every street-corner. Life is good.
I've had writings published in several anarchist 'zines & coedited my own (Street Rat(-Bag)), made a slew of anarchist movies, etc, etc.. Below is a list of some of the books that I've read that've helped inform my opinions. Of course, the majority of my opinions have been informed by simply existing & observing. One might say that there're street anarchists & that there are book anarchists. I'm both & think that both are valuable.
- tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE - October 4, 2017E.V.
0366. a. inside front cover rubber-stamping,
b. "You Know Where You Can Go!",
c. "Recommended Reading",
d. "The Mysterious Death of Jeffrey Steinberg",
e. manipulated e-mage for "How You Demolish Cars With A Hammerhead",
f. manipulated e-mage for "De-De-Po-Po",
g. "CircumSubstantial Playing & Blindfolded Tourism",
h. "Foreign Correspondence (or Non-Adventures in Dystopia)",
i. "'Oklahomans for Children and Families' vs the film 'The Tin Drum'",
j. intro to "Russell Means meets the PLiSLooplyR",
k. "Interview w/ Andrew",
l. "War",
m. "CD Notes"
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- published in: Street Rat-Bag 5 (November 2001)
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- edited by: the Street Rat-Bags
0410. a review of Alfred W. McCoy's "The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia"
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- published on Goodreads on December 26, 2007
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11023372
0417. a review of L. I. Brezhnev's "Our Course: Peace and Socialism"
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- published on Goodreads on December 28, 2007
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2413593.Our_Course
0418. a review of Frank Fernández's "Cuba - The Anarchists & Liberty"
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- published on Goodreads on December 28, 2007
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2413658.Cuba_The_Anarchists_Liberty
0419. a review of Chris Crass's "A Woman of Compassion: The Life of Voltairine de Cleyre"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on December 28, 2007
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2413704.A_Woman_of_Compassion
0420. a review of Emmett Grogan's "Ringolevio: A Life Played for Keeps"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on December 28, 2007
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11164047
0421. a review of Ann Hansen's "Direct Action: Memoirs of an Urban Guerrilla"
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- published on Goodreads on December 28, 2007
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11164585
0422. "Recommended Reading"
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- broken into 3 "chapters":
2. A People's History of the United States
3. American Assassins - The Darker Side of Politics
- published on Goodreads January 8, 2008:
https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/8287-recommended-reading
0423. a review of Elmer Rice's "Judgment Day"
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- published on Goodreads on January 8, 2008
- http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2532924.Judgment_Day
0424. a review of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham City Jail"
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- published on Goodreads on January 8, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11958100
0425. a review of Hans Joachim Klein's "German guerrilla: terror, reaction, and resistance"
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- published on Goodreads on January 8, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11958798
0426. a review of Ken Knabb's "Public Secrets: Collected Skirmishes of Ken Knabb: 1970-1997"
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- published on Goodreads on January 8, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11959583
0427. a review of Tuli Kupferberg's "1001 Ways to Live Without Working"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on January 8, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11960407
0428. a review of Vladimir Lenin's "Interviews Given to Foreign Correspondents"
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- published on Goodreads on January 8, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11961995
0429. a review of Margot Harry's "Attention, Move! This Is America!"
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- published on Goodreads on January 8, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11962026
0430. a review of David Hoffman's "The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror"
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- published on Goodreads on January 8, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11962997
0431. a review of Tony Palmer's "The Trials Of Oz"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on January 8, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11964119
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on January 8, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11964391
0433. a review of Women's History Information Project's "Lucy Parsons Woman of Will"
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- published on Goodreads on January 8, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11964995
0434. a review of Bob Black & Adam Parfrey's "Rants and Incendiary Tracts"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on January 8, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11965826
0435. a review of Gilles Perrault's "The Red Orchestra"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on January 8, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11967234
0436. a review of Gerry Reith's "Neutron Gun"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on January 8, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11968081
0437. a review of Ed Sanders's "1968"
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- published on Goodreads on January 8, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11968479
0438. a review of Margia Kramer's "Essential Documents The F.B.I. File on Jean Seberg - Part I"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on January 8, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11969386
0439. a review of Margia Kramer's "Essential Documents The F.B.I. File on Jean Seberg - Part II"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on January 8, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11970261
0440. a review of R. U. Sirius's "The Revolution: Quotations from Revolution Party Chairman R. U. Sirius"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on January 8, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11970733
0441. a review of Bradley R. Smith's "Confessions of a Holocaust Revisionist"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on January 8, 2008
- http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2533868.Confessions_of_a_Holocaust_Revisionist
0442. a review of Vin McLellan & Paul Avery's "The Voices of Guns"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on January 8, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11971934
0443. a review of Jim Redden's "Snitch Culture"
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- published on Goodreads on January 8, 2008
- http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/778557.Snitch_Culture
0444. a review of Murray Bookchin's "The Spanish Anarchists: The Heroic Years 1868-1936"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on January 8, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11973841
0445. a review of The subRosa Collective's "Domain Errors!: Cyberfeminist Practices: A subRosa Project"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on January 8, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11975438
0446. a review of Stefan Szczelkun's "The Conspiracy of Good Taste"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on January 8, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2534152.Conspiracy_of_Good_Taste
0447. a review of Ahmed Rashid's "Taliban"
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- published on Goodreads on January 8, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11976318
0448. a review of Peter Lamborn Wilson's "Pirate Utopias"
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- published on Goodreads on January 8, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11976681
0449. a review of The Desert Storm Editorial collective's "desert storm"
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- published on Goodreads on January 8, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11977301
0450. a review of Harold Thomas's "The World Power Foundation - Its Goals And Platform"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on January 8, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11978249
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on January 8, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11978892
0452. a review of Shaun S's "Ross Winn: Digging Up a Tennessee Anarchist"
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- published on Goodreads on January 8, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11979946
0453. a review of Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States"
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- published on Goodreads on January 8, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11979946
0571. a review of Jack Hoffman's "Run Run Run"
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- published on Goodreads on February 15, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15539465
0572. a review of Joan d'Arc, editor "Paranoid Women Collect Their Thoughts : A Paranoia Anthology"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on February 15, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15539837
0616. a review of James W. Clarke's "American Assassins: The Darker Side of Politics"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on March 3, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16919564
0708. a review of Lewis Yablonsky's "Robopaths"
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- published on Goodreads on March 14, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3132178-robopaths
0830. a review of Timothy Leary's "Jail Notes"
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- published on Goodreads on April 12, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19996362
0898. a review of Partisan Project's "Partisan Project: Presidential Election"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on April 28, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21179300
0899. a review of Partisan Project's "Partisan Project: Eject Santorum"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on April 28, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21181700
0908. a review of Bonnie Donohue, Warner Wada's "Control Zone"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on May 7, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21810885
0937. a review of Allen Ginsberg's "Chicago Trial Testimony"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on May 29, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23218826
0962. a review of Hakim Bey's "Chaos - the broadsheets of ontological anarchism"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on June 11, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24229040
0963. a review of Valerie Solanas's "SCUM Manifesto"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on June 11, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3421999-scum-manifesto
0965. a review of Reader's Digest Association's "Top Secret - A Dossier of the Greatest Spies of History"
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- published on Goodreads on June 11, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24257968
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on June 14, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24274829
0996. a review of Kester's "1959 - 1985"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on June 28, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25741923
1025. a review of Prison Poster Project's "Understanding the Big Picture"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on October 19, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35705469
1027. a review of Guy Debord's "Considerations on the Assassination of Gérard Lebovici"
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- published on Goodreads on November 4, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36925576
1030. a review of Suetonius's "The Twelve Caesars"
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- published on Goodreads on November 17, 2008
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37978001
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on March 7, 2009
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48491188
1125. a review of Greg King's "The Mad King: The Life and Times of Ludwig II of Bavaria"
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- published on Goodreads on January 19, 2010
- http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/855566.The_Mad_King
1138. a review of Theodore Draper's "The Roots of American Communism"
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- published on Goodreads on April 11, 2010
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/97968169
1218. "Review of Angela Y. Davis' "Blues Legacies and Black Feminism""
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- published on Goodreads December 11, 2010:
1294. a review of Hannah Arendt's "Eichmann in Jersulalem - A Report on the Banality of Evil"
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- published on Goodreads on January 3, 2012
- http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13367624-eichmann-in-jerusalem
1592. "Krylon Underscrutiny":
- A review of the Bob German edited "Krylon Underground -1984-1992 - Nine Years in Zine Culture"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads December 26, 2015
- https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/411386-krylon-underscrutiny
1640. "Imp-Roper"
- A review of Marco De Seriis's "Improper Names - Collective Pseudonyms from the Luddites to Anonymous"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads April 12, 2016
- https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/434743-imp-roper?chapter=1
- also here: http://idioideo.pleintekst.nl/Book2015Improper.html
1648. "Chernobyl Hibakusha":
- A review of Svetlana Alexievich's "Voices from Chernobyl"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads May 17, 2016
- https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/443403-chernobyl-hibakusha
1677. "Extraordinary Accomplishments,"
- A review of Jonathan Littman's "The Watchman - The Twisted Life and Crimes of Serial Hacker Kevin Poulsen"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads October 3, 2016
- https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/495781-the-extraordinary-accomplishments?chapter=1
1902. "Saturn spy school"
- a review of Vasily Ardamatsky's "Saturn is Almost Invisible"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on November 1, 2018
- https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/1078359?chapter=1
1909. "I love you, Pagu"
- a review of Patrícia Galvão's "Industrial Park"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on November 18, 2018
- https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/1080000-i-love-you-pagu
1925. "Sebastián San Vicente: Gotta love the guy"
- a review of Paco Ignacio Taibo II's "Just Passing Through"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on January 10, 2019
- https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/1087722-sebasti-n-san-vicente
1938. "review of Manuel Vázquez Montalbán's "Murder in the Central Committee""
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- published on Goodreads on March 19, 2019
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2755929176
2032. "Backlash to Arrogance: Let Illich, Be Heard"
- a review of Ivan Illich's "Medical Nemesis"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads July 24, 2021
- https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/1354634-backlash-to-arrogance?chapter=1
2067. "review of Bonar Thompson's "Hyde Park Orator""
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads February 9, 2022
- https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/1791685-bonar-thompson?chapter=1
2106. "review of Brian Gentry's "Adventures in Ontological Dissonance or Why I Have No Money""
- the complete version of my review
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on my "Critic" website on September 11, 2022
- http://idioideo.pleintekst.nl/CriticOntological.html
2107. "review of Brian Gentry's "Adventures in Ontological Dissonance or Why I Have No Money""
- the truncated version of my review
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on September 11, 2022
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4980470941
2152. "review of Jason Rodgers's "Invisible Generation""
- the complete version of my review
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on my "Critic" website March 9, 2023
- http://idioideo.pleintekst.nl/CriticRodgers.html
2153. "review of Jason Rodgers's "Invisible Generation""
- the truncated version of my review
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads March 9, 2023
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5402791531
2161. "review of Peter Werbe's "Summer on Fire, A Detroit Novel" "
- the complete version of my review
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on my "Critic" website March 27, 2023
- http://idioideo.pleintekst.nl/CriticWerbe.html
2162. "review of Peter Werbe's "Summer on Fire, A Detroit Novel" "
- the truncated version of my review
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- uploaded to Goodreads March 27, 2023
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5444238209
2167. "review of David L. Phillips's "The Kurdish Spring""
- the complete version of my review
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on my "Critic" website May 17, 2023
- http://idioideo.pleintekst.nl/CriticKurdish.html
2168. "review of David L. Phillips's "The Kurdish Spring""
- the truncated version of my review
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads May 17, 2023
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5556013627
2217. "review of Subcomandante Marcos & Paco Ignacio Taibo II's "the uncomfortable DEAD""
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- uploaded to Goodreads February 23, 2024
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6288920268
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