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Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 20:49:12 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tom Condit <tomcondit-AT-igc.apc.org>
Subject: Books


Dear Pete:

Your son sounds very like my step-son (who just turned 17 and is a student
at Berkeley High). He also tends to avoid books and claims not to like
history, but he read Ray Ginger's biography of Eugene Debs with great
interest after getting pushed into it for a school report. (He hated the
newer DSA-ish one.) He's also enjoying James Baldwin's work a lot.

If he likes science fiction, try turning him on to Dorothy Bryant and Ursula
K. LeGuin.

I'm thinking back to what I enjoyed at that age, but I was a very bookish
kid so it may not be relevant. _The Road to Calvary_ by Alexis Tolstoy,
_Martin Eden_ by Jack London, and especially biographies -- LaFollette,
Debs, Harriet Tubman, Joe Hill, etc.  It doesn't particularly matter if
books are "correct" if they give a good feel for the movement of events and
people. James T Farrell's Studs Lonigan books might (or might not) interest him.

Tom




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