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Cold New World: Growing Up in a Harder Country (Modern Library Paperbacks)

12 reviews
William Finnegan

Modern Library, 1999

Highly Recommended Sociological Study of the Real America
William Finnegan's study of American 'underclasses' is hardly scientific in the traditional sense, yet a reading of this book will certainly earn the reader's respect for its depth and the amount of physical area it touches upon across the U.S. Finnegan gets so deep in these peoples' lives over the six years he took to gather these stories that he can describe the situations to perfection. His ...

A Complicated War: The Harrowing of Mozambique (Perspectives on South Africa)

7 reviews
William Finnegan

University of California Press, 1993

Valuable and painful insights into Mozambique's past.
This is a lively and well written book which deals with the period of civil war in Mozambique. It was completed and published just before the conclusion of a successful peace process and so provides a particularly clear and powerful view of recent history.It is based on the author's travels within country during the war period and includes extensive interviews. The people he talked and worked ...

Crossing the Line: A Year in the Land of Apartheid

3 reviews
William Finnegan

Persea, 2006

An absorbing look at life in Apartheid-era South Africa
William Finnegan, an American, has authored an utterly absorbing look at life - particularly black life - in Apartheid-era South Africa. As an American intimately familiar with the political culture of that troubled country, it and the resistance it engendered is an ongoing source of wonder that the South Africa of 2007 could have emerged as a "light unto the world" given the violence, racism ...

The Encyclopedia of Surfing

14 reviews
Matt Warshaw

Harvest Books, 2005

A MUST HAVE FOR ANY SURFER
If you are a surfer or interested in learning anything about the history and names in the sport past and present then you should immediately buy this book. Two copies. Matt Warshaw does an excellent job of detailing almost every major and minor aspect in the history of the sport from onshore wind to "nat young" to "new jersey". There are small black and white photos throughout the book as ...

Dateline Soweto: Travels with Black South African Reporters
William Finnegan

University of California Press, 1995

Dateline Soweto documents the working lives of black South African reporters caught between the mistrust of militant blacks, police harrassment, and white editors who--fearing government disapproval--may not print the stories these reporters risk their lives to get. William Finnegan revisited several of these reporters during the May 1994 election and describes their post-apartheid working experience in a new preface and epilogue.