Detective Inspector Huss

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When is a Suicide not a Suicide, When it's a Murder

Eventually An O.K. Mystery

All-star Swedish thriller

Good book. Bad title.

fine Swedish police procedural

Detective Inspector Huss
Helene Tursten
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Book Description

"Add the voice of Helen Tursten to the list of mystery writers who know how to craft a truly satisfying police procedural."-Philadelphia Inquirer

"An absorbing, intelligent mystery that holds its own alongside the best feminine hardboiled novels currently being written by Englishwomen Val McDermid and Liza Cody, and our own Sara Paretsky."-Maureen Corrigan, NPR, "Fresh Air," Washington Post Book World

"The picture Tursten provides of Sweden's growing anti-immigrant resentment-embodied in Huss' skinhead daughter-imbues this novel with a cold chill of dread that can't be attributed only to the subfreezing temperatures of Goteborg in winter."-Chicago Sun-Times

Inspector Irene Huss, stationed in Goteborg, is called through the rain-drenched wintry streets to the scene of an apparent suicide. The dead man landed on the sidewalk in front of his luxurious duplex apartment. He was a wealthy financier connected, through an old-boys' network, with the first families of Sweden. But the "Society Suicide" turns out to have been a carefully plotted murder. As more murders ensue, she tangles with street gang members, skinheads, immigrants and neo-Nazis-a cross-section of Sweden's disaffected-in order to catch the killer.

Helene Tursten has been compared to P.D. James in her native Sweden. Her three subsequent Irene Huss mysteries have been highly praised. She was born in Goteborg in 1954 where she now lives.

Customer Reviews:

When is a Suicide not a Suicide, When it's a Murder.......2007-09-16

Detective Inspector Irene Huss has to prove that the supposed suicide of one of the richest men in Sweden was really a murder. So begins this series set in Goteborg whose heroine is a wife/mother of thirteen year old twin girls/judo black belt/ cop. What sets this new series apart from others is that the police procedurals are only part of what makes it multi-layered expose on modern Swedish society.

Socialist Sweden is a 'cradle to grave' government which in many ways creates stagnation among it's people by taking 'too' good care of them. Tursten takes time to explain the complex societal changes that are swirling through her country: racism, sexism, drugs. You hear the resentment of immigrants who can't speak Swedish, and the growing problem of a 'skinhead' movement. Even after fifty years, men still resent woman in places of power. As in every European country, drugs are becoming too easy to get.

Tursten does all of this without being pedantic or preachy.

Eventually An O.K. Mystery.......2006-04-23

I say eventually because this book is way, way too long. The plot is not that complex, but somehow Tursten manages to get lost in minutiae and turn this cozy little family mystery into a behemoth of boredom.

The translation is superb, and little problems of flow are handled extremely well. The characterization is a little simplistic, and it is not very realistic to suppose that, even in socialized Sweden, Mr. Huss will be happy cleaning house and being second fiddle to his absent wife.

This particular plot and set of characters, even in a pared down form, could at best have been given four stars. But due to all the meanderings into DI Huss' boss' blood pressure problems (for example), I was just relieved to reach the end of this journey through the Sahara. When key plot details are finally revealed and resolved, the reader is just too numb to find them thrilling. I doubt I'll try another....

All-star Swedish thriller.......2005-06-30

I really got into this story about a woman police detective in Goteborg, Sweden. This is not a lightweight mystery that comes to the conclusion that X killed Y. There are complex relationships between the characters, a lot of interrelated violent crimes, and motives that are not at all apparent at the start. The book pulls the reader right in by having a wealthy prominent man fall to his death from a high-rise balcony, landing in the street where his wife and son have just parked the car. The net of people involved continually widens, and the action doesnt stop. Some subplots running through the book add to the story (rather than distracting readers, as some authors do). The most interesting for me was the main character's having to handle her 13-year-old daughter becoming seriously involved with a group of neo-Nazis. The details of family and departmental relationships add a sense of reality. The one criticism I had was that the main character's husband was too perfect to be real. I thought it may have been more interesting if she had been divorced, raising the kids on her own. This would leave the possibility open for some romantic involvement. Apart from that, I did get the feeling of having been to Sweden when I finished the story. I highly recommend this book.

Good book. Bad title........2005-04-15

Soho Press must've held a book-naming contest and given the prize to the most-generic, least-offensive name. Roughly translated, the book's original title is "The Broken Tang Horse," which explains why several parts of the plot (including the mention of the artifact itself) are highlighted to give the title its full meaning. And putting "Sweden's Prime Suspect" on the cover?

Apart from the inane title for the English translation, the book is good in the vein of the team-effort Swedish police procedurals, although the viewpoint really belongs to Detective Inspector Irene Huss and Detective Superintendent Sven Andersson. (Most of the book revolves around Huss.) There's probably a few subplots too many with the daughter's flirtation with skinheads, or a husband who seems to be more of a "I'm cooking, let's eat!" guy, or the sexist office drama that never seem to show up with Kurt Wallander's gang down in Ystad. However, it's a good plot that develops a group of characters we'll hopefully see again with translations of Tursten's other books. (There are five more.)

fine Swedish police procedural.......2004-07-17

Financial mogul Richard von Knecht jumps off Goteborg, Sweden apartment balcony. Suicide seems obvious, but some counter evidence quickly surfaces that murder may have occurred. Irene Huss of the Violent Crimes Unit investigates the von Knecht death with a word of caution that the victim is connected to the Swedish elite.

Rather quickly Huss and her competent team trace von Knecht's life into the criminal underground of drug dealing and motorcycle gangs. Not long afterwards, the case turns deadly again when a bomb blows up Von Knecht's business office, killing two people. Huss and her squad struggle with finding the specific motive though in some way she knows that von Knecht's underworld and business connections have crossed at a fatal junction making her worry that more killings will follow if they do not stop the unknown perpetrator now.

Ironically, the reader can figure out who the culprit is rather quickly, but that does not interfere with a fine Swedish police procedural. Huss is a delightful protagonist struggling to make it in a world in which male domination is not limited to the men's room. The police force, especially those who work with the heroine, are a wonderful group as their verbal exchanges and professional investigation make for a fine read for sub-genre fans who also can look forward to future translations of Detective Huss' caseload.

Harriet Klausner

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One Stunner of a book.......2001-03-18

This was fantastic. A real tear-jerker at the end. Now I'm so going to have to buy the other books in the series. I am now officially a Peter Morwood addict, and from someone who never thought they'd like sci-fantasy, that's something. But that book was classic Morwood - language, swords, style, and he's invented one of those rare, precious instantly likable characters - Aldric is cool.

the mind's domain.......2000-03-03

Ooopps...I have read this series some five years ago...for the first time....Ihave grew up on Tolkien and on the Conan series among the best...but this four book (The Book of Years series) is really amazed me.

At first glance itt seemed somehow a plain vendetta story....but when the tale slowly unfolded it stunned me.

Empires and languagers which are so familiar from the Romance and Japanese history...yet so strange...Felleings that devour you..and finally U don't know is it a happy end or not...a must have for all who thinks fantasy is not only for toying with...

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A book chronicling one of the worst human disasters in recorded history really has no business being entertaining. But John Kelly's The Great Mortality is a page-turner despite its grim subject matter and graphic detail. Credit Kelly's animated prose and uncanny ability to drop his reader smack in the middle of the 14th century, as a heretofore unknown menace stalks Eurasia from "from the China Sea to the sleepy fishing villages of coastal Portugal [producing] suffering and death on a scale that, even after two world wars and twenty-seven million AIDS deaths worldwide, remains astonishing." Take Kelly's vivid description of London in the fall of 1348: "A nighttime walk across Medieval London would probably take only twenty minutes or so, but traversing the daytime city was a different matter.... Imagine a shopping mall where everyone shouts, no one washes, front teeth are uncommon and the shopping music is provided by the slaughterhouse up the road." Yikes, and that's before just about everything with a pulse starts dying and piling up in the streets, reducing the population of Europe by anywhere from a third to 60 percent in a few short years. In addition to taking readers on a walking tour through plague-ravaged Europe, Kelly heaps on the ancillary information and every last bit of it is captivating. We get a thorough breakdown of the three types of plagues that prey on humans; a detailed account of how the plague traveled from nation to nation (initially by boat via flea-infested rats); how floods (and the appalling hygiene of medieval people) made Europe so susceptible to the disease; how the plague triggered a new social hierarchy favoring women and the proletariat but also sparked vicious anti-Semitism; and especially, how the plague forever changed the way people viewed the church. Engrossing, accessible, and brimming with first-hand accounts drawn from the Middle Ages, The Great Mortality illuminates and inspires. History just doesn't get better than that. --Kim Hughes

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La moria grandissima began its terrible journey across the European and Asian continents in 1347, leaving unimaginable devastation in its wake. Five years later, twenty-five million people were dead, felled by the scourge that would come to be called the Black Death. The Great Mortality is the extraordinary epic account of the worst natural disaster in European history -- a drama of courage, cowardice, misery, madness, and sacrifice that brilliantly illuminates humankind's darkest days when an old world ended and a new world was born.

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Much More Entertaining than you would Expect it to be.......2007-08-10

It takes a certain personality to write about death and disease, but it takes an altogether odd personality to write about a pandemic and make it interesting. Kelly has done a whole lot of research about the pandemic and it's progress from the Steppes of central asia until it finally peters out after four years of obliterating up to half of the population of Europe.

Like any one, you would ask the traditional who, what, where, when and why? Kelly does a superb job of blending the answers together in an easily readable and knowledgeable way. He start where the disease begins, and then goes into explaining the different theories of it's causes that have been postulated over the years. He gives his own opinion as to whose theories he believes and then explains why he doesn't agree with others.

His description of how the disease began and how it was able to have such an overall effect on Europe. More than anything, he explains how the years preceding the outbreak had set-up the conditions for it's maximized effect. Prior years heavy rains and poor harvests had led to starvation and people living on the edge. In poor physical condition to begin with, and many having lingering effects from a famine in their childhoods, large numbers of Europeans had no ability to fight off the disease.

In addition, the unsanitary nature of European cities, with garbage and fecal matter mixing in the streets with animal carcases and the detritus of butchers just thrown in the street created a paradise for the rats that carried the disease vectors (fleas) with them. Add to this mess, the idea that bathing was unnecessary and probably dangerous and you have the makings of a paradise for the disease.

But why were men of science and logic unable to see what the base cause was? Mostly because they were stuck in the paradigms of the times and no one could think their way out of the box they had all put themselves in. The only major organization that could have helped by crossing over political lines was the Catholic Church. And the Church as much as anyone spent a lot of time running away from the problem while losing many of their brightest people to the disease. Those who were left were overwhelmed by the enormity of death and destruction the disease caused.

If your first thought is that this is a payment from God for ungodliness then you've already stopped yourself dead in the water. How do you stop something that is the wrath of an omnipotent deity? You don't. You cower in your little hovel and hope he misses you because you are too insignificant to be worth bothering with.

Or you look for someone to blame it on. Lunatics, Lepers, Jews? Yes that's the answer, this is a conspiracy of the Jews. So lets kill them (torture confessions out of them first) and at the same time we can also steal all their gold and possessions. They killed Christ and they are probably trying to kill all of the Christians too. Give credit to Pope Clement VI who sent out many papal bulls denouncing the destruction of the Jews and asking the local priests to protect them. It did no good but it's more that a lot of other Popes (Pius XII) have done.

In the end, the explanation as to why this pandemic was so destructive as compared to others where the death toll was never above 15%, is yet to be undiscovered. There are lots of theories and counter-theories but no one can say for sure.

Grotesque and fascinating tale to entertain.......2007-03-19

"The Great Mortality" succeeds as entertaining popular history; it is not entirely accurate biology and epidemiology. Nor is it a comparative analysis of differences in the many areas savaged by the Plague.

Other works by Norman Cantor and by Robert S. Gottfried are also of value. Kelly is more fun to read which appears to be its purpose. Along with something of the historical and social context he includes lively stories and experiences of those living - and dying - at the time.

More case studies in other locations and cultures that have differing medical and social responses potentially could reveal much. There is an older interesting study of Egypt and perhaps others of China (?), perhaps even of India (?) but no comparative analysis that could be fascinating and revealing.

Historical errors raise concerns about the author.......2007-02-28

While this is a brisk read, as a good popular history should be, I am concerned by errors in the text. One example suffices. In Chapter 2, Kelly describes the infamous Fourth Crusade thusly: "Venetian authorities offered a group of French Crusaders free passage to the Holy Land, then rerouted the Crusaders east to capture Constantinople." Wrong on virtually every count. Then as now, Venetians gave nothing away free. The Doge and the leaders of the Crusade agreed on a (healthy) price for transport by sea to Egypt (not Palestine). When the troops arrived at the port, however, the Crusaders proved to be short of funds, and were unable to raise the balance. Only then were they diverted to the sack of Zara and then of Constantinople as a means of paying their debt to Venice. See Norwich, "A History of Venice" for the details.

Now, if Kelly can get an episode as well-known and well-documented as the Fourth Crusade so wrong, how can one trust his judgment on other issues? Especially on such issues as epidemiology, which few readers (myself included) are likely to know much about?

I also note that the author apparently personally responded to one of the negative reviews posted here. I would rather that he respond to the one that accuses him of plagiarism. I do hope it's unfounded.

Too choppy to keep interest.......2007-01-08

This book started out interesting, I was drawn in after reading possibly the most graphic paragraph I'd ever encountered, but the author skips around so much that you can't find a thread of narrative to follow. It makes the book confusing and hard to remain interested in.

Fasacinating, but choppy in places.......2007-01-02

Europe - and eurasia - suffered a devastating pestilence in the mid-14th century, with an estimated 25% of its population dying. The spread of the buboic plague from Caffa to Moscow is graphically recounted in Kelly's _The Great Mortality_.

The book follows the course of the plague chronologically, city by city, citing sources while giving the reader a feel for the time period. The book is at its strongest when it discusses the vectors, spread and effects of the disease on European society. Relating the individual stories of plague sufferers and survivors is also a strength, and gives a personalizes the losses inflicted by the disease.

It is at its weakest, however, when the author literally gives "voice" to the deceased, straying from the historical record. This was most apparent in the sections dealing with the plague in Britain, curious, as this was in the latter part of the book. The controversey about the nature of the plague also detracted from the narrative - an addendum or afterword would have been a more apporpriate place to discuss historical semantics.

I do recommend it - the historical scholarship is first rate, and on the whole it reads more like a novel than a history.

The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time.

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The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time.

Manufacturer: Harper Collins
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ASIN: 0739458450

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"A rich and evocative narrative history of the late Middle Ages....which brings alive the time of the Black Death.... It's a work of brilliance and wisdom".

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The Great Mortality : An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
John Kelly
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OENYIW

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This book never came!!!

Stock issues?

Simply delicious vegan delights!

Finally, a non-fish/non-poultry Asian cookbook

A good, simple cookbook

Japanese Vegetarian Cooking: From Simple Soups to Sushi (Vegetarian Cooking Series)
Patricia Richfield
Manufacturer: Crossing Press
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This book never came!!!.......2006-08-17

I ordered this book in May and was really looking forward to having it. Every month they postponed my order, and then told me they couldn't get it, which is too bad because I'd really like to have it. My question is, why is it still avalible for sale if they can't get it?

Stock issues?.......2006-07-10

I ordered the book in March of 2006, and every month I was required by Amazon to approve a delay. It's July and still more delays.

I only mention this because while the experience may be unique to me, you might want to reconsider ordering it as a birthday gift or other time-sensitive occasion.

This happened to me with another cookbook, and another customer reviewer mentioned long delays in her review, and I found it helpful so I thought I'd mention it with this one.

Simply delicious vegan delights!.......2006-05-12

I picked this book up about 6 years ago. I am a vegan and enjoy making veggie sushi and other Japanese dishes. This book is really great. I make one recipe from it about twice a month -- it's called tofu and braised leeks, I think. Anyhow, it's great. My wife and son love that one! The best thing about the recipes is that they are really simple and require few ingredients. I highly recommend it!

Finally, a non-fish/non-poultry Asian cookbook.......2004-07-30

I was pleasantly surprised to finally find an Asian vegetarian cookbook that does not contain any fish or poultry ingredients. Most that claim to be vegetarian,aren't. This book is different. Even the recipe for dashi is purely plant based. If you are vegan, the author does note what you can do to alter the recipe as egg is sometimes listed as an ingredient.

The recipes are easy to read and a delight to prepare. One of my favorites is the egg omlet. The flavor is very light, delicate, and slightly sweet. What a change from traditional Western omlets. This is great sliced and sprinkled across rice, rolled up into sushi, added to soups, or just eaten on its own.

If you are looking for a cookbook that provides more of the authentic Asian flavor, this is it. Mirin, sake, soy sauce, and rice vinegar are sauce staples. If your local grocery store does not carry these items, ask them. If they won't, then either order them online or search for an Asian market within driving distance.

It would have been nice if the book displayed the picture on the same page as the recipe itself. Even though there are a limited number of photo pages, there are multiple dishes per page, but I wasn't certain which dish represented which recipe (some were easy to figure out). More pictures would have turned this into a 5 star review.

A good, simple cookbook.......2002-09-24

"Japanese Vegetarian Cooking: From Simple Soups to Sushi" is a fantastic beginners guide. The language is simple, the instructions easy to follow and the ingredients easy to find. Many recipes use Sake, Japanese Mirin wine and varieties of Tofu and Seaweed. These are the most difficult ingredients to locate.

Although the recipes are simple, they are very good and can be the base of a daily Japanese menu. Full dinners, snacks, lunches, soups and all that are available for cooking. Rice is a main component of most of the dishes, but there are some excellent potato recipes and more vegetable-rich dishes. The glossary of ingredients is a usefull addition.

I have made many meals using this cookbook, and I will make many more.

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Water Dragon.......2000-05-22

I thought this book was very helpful. It contained very important and reliable information. While the information was somewhat limited you should easily be able to find other information on the internet. The pictures were spectacular. They give you a feel of how a healthy Water Dragon should look and how a sickly Water Dragon should appear. If you are planning to purchase this book you might also have to look just a little for other more specific information. However if you want the basics on how to care for a Water Dragon I beleive that this book will be very helpful for you.

There are better water dragon care guidelines.......2000-03-30

The overall basic information in this book is correct, but given that there are 2 species of water dragon, 3 Basilisk, and one Sailfin Lizard species discussed on only 15 text pages, and the remaining 35 pages consisting of caging, diet and health topics for all 6 lizard types, with commercial products suggested for use scattered throughout this section, I find this book to be too minimal to really help anyone but the newest of lizard keepers - and these new lizard keepers just might be better off with a book that goes into more detail.

Philippe de Vosjoli's "The general care and maintenance of Green water dragons, Sailfin lizards, and Basilisks" or Bartlett & Bartlett's "Anoles, Basilisks, and Water Dragons" would be better books for a new lizard keeper to start out with.

This book has a lot of pictures in it - 70 +, and while some of the lizard photographs are beautiful, many show stressed or ill looking lizards with captions that describe the pics as being a normal appearing or healthy lizard.

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Perfume atomizers are avidly collected today. In this exquisite, color-illustrated new book, hundreds of atomizers are displayed and identified. A well-documented text, descriptive captions and over 400 color photographs demonstrate the diverse and beautiful variety of bottles and dispensers which make up the atomizer world. Art Nouveau, Art Deco and Moderne styles reflect the changing tastes of the public. Well-known designers and manufacturers, including Rene Lalique, Marcel Franck, Baccarat, St. Louis, and Bohemian glassmakers, contributed to this by-gone and ultra-feminine apparatus.

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Great Gardening book

West coast disappeared

I want NEW

Give it a chance

It's all the information you'll need packed into one book!

New Illustrated Guide to Gardening
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ASIN: 0762102764
Release Date: 2000-03-02

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The most definitive practical gardening book on the market-now completely revised and updated -covers every aspect of growing healthy flowers, trees, shrubs, fruits, vegetables, and herbs. No other gardening book is needed.

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Great Gardening book.......2007-08-07

This book is exactly what I was looking for and could not find. I had a very old edition of this book many years ago and was looking for a replacement. This covers all aspects of gardening and what I need to know. I highly recommend this book. Easy to read, concise and to the point information.

West coast disappeared.......2007-07-24

The book was a gift and was greatly appreciated. The illustrations are wonderful but the lack of west coast data was disappointing, the book is mainly for east coasters.

I want NEW.......2006-12-23

I have the Old version of this book. For the last 15 years it has been the book I first turned to for advise on planting, pruning, propagating and even selecting varieties. It was also the book that I turned to for solving the mystery of what was trying to kill my cedars one day and gave an effective solution. I didn't think this book could get better but I discovered I was wrong when I bought the "NEW" version for a friend for Christmas 2006.

Everything important to me is still there. Detail about the various plants, trees, shrubs, roses, and a countless list of perennials and annuals is quick to find, as are the demands each needs to thrive. Sections on saving existing plants through pruning, soil adjustment, pest control still remain with (in some areas), improved drawings, explanation and illustration will always be a lifesaver.

What I like most about this addition though are the thumbnail photos showing specific species of plants, specific photos of pests and disease. The drawings in the past were good but nothing compares to actually seeing a photo of the damage. I also like the attention given to the edible garden section. This probably replaced the "house plant' section which I never did bother to read.

In summary, this is a must own book for even a modest gardener. It inspires you to do more and help you to get there. It makes planning easier and solving problems easier still. It is a reference book worth its weight in gold and it is also now on my wish list.

Give it a chance.......2004-06-04

Reader's Digest... what do they know about Gardening?? It was with a disappointed sigh that I received this book as a birthday present in February. But, lo and behold, I opened it in April and have had a hard time putting it down. This is simply a superb! It is clear, concise, very helpful. I highly recommend it as one of the only gardening reference books you'll need.

It's all the information you'll need packed into one book!.......2003-08-05

I had the use of my sister-in-laws book, but I had to have my own copy! What a great, informative, and easy to use book! As a beginner gardener I wasn't sure how to do the seasonal care, fertilize, do soil checks, water properly, or prune correctly. This book taught me so much! Many helpful and detailed pictures included with the text as well! Worth every penny I spent! I highly recommend this book for any gardening home's reference library!

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GARDENING FOR PROFIT; A Guide To The Successful Cultivation of the Market and Family Garden. Entirely New and Greatly Enlarged.
Peter Henderson
Manufacturer: O. Judd Co.
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In 1906, Werner Sombart famously quipped that the ship of American socialism had crashed on the `reefs of roast beef and apple pie'. Why did socialism never take ground in the USA? This volume opens with the first English translation of Karl Kautsky's 1906 long essay `The American Worker', an extended response published in Die Neue Zeit to Sombart's 1905 essay `Why Is There No Socialism in the United States?' Other essays and reviews are each marked by an effort to come to terms with the fact that Friedrich Engels's optimism that History would take care of class consciousness in the USA, has been proven misplaced.

Originally published as issue 4 of Volume 11(2003) of Brill Academic Publishers' journal Historical Materialism.

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Forerunner of 1960's Black Power Movement.......2002-05-07

Carlos Cooks was much more than a mid 20th Century Khalid Muhummad. He continued the Black Nationalist legacy left by Marcus Garvey. He wasn't afraid to point out the self-hating tendencies of the Black Middle Class (or caste as he calls them). He also is unafraid to challenge the prevailing popular thought on integration (American Tradition Vetoes Integration). He also laid the foundation for the Black power movement by influencing Malcolm X among many others. This is book that should be read for those who want to understand the roots of Black Nationalism.

Black Nationalism at it's strongest and wildest.......2001-08-17

Carlos Cooks was something of the mid-20th century version of Khallid Muhammad. Think Minister Louis Farrakhan can get outrageous? You ain't heard nothing yet! Carlos Cooks (a Harlem Street Speaker of the 40s thru 60s) used a lot of wild humor and shock theater to get his message across. His speech on Adam and Eve and it's relationship to Black people must be read to be believed! It seems that there were very few leaders that he really liked. Nkrumah, Haile Selassie, Fidel Castro, and many others take their lumps here along with any Black person who diverts from his dogmatic view of Blackness. Recommended for the most hardcore of militants and Black history fans only. This ain't Martin Luther king by a longshot here, so be warned!

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