From: "Heather Glaisyer" <heather-AT-teknopunx.co.uk>
Subject: Re: nomadology (book)
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 21:54:20 +0100



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From: "shawn wilbur" <swilbur-AT-wcnet.org>
To: "Heather Glaisyer" <heather-AT-teknopunx.co.uk>
Cc: "anarchy-list" <anarchy-list-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 7:26 PM
Subject: Re: nomadology (book)
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 The thing about Cooper is that, whatever his historical
embroiderings may have been, he was sensitive to key social conflicts,
particularly those central to the debate about what could constitute an
"American" identity and culture. His tendency is to come in on "the wrong
side"
(from my point of view) - and, of course, some of his more action-oriented
prose is fairly awful - but he still wrote a number of pretty interesting
novels.

H
Oh ok-I only heard of him through Brent who's my mohican friend that hates
his guts. I'm into novels just now-getting through 3/4 a week as I got 2
hours travel a day and a really boring job. reccommendations?
H

There's no percentage in reading Cooper's novels as history - but they are
themselves part of an interesting history.

-shawn