http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/weirdos_of_colo Ubiquitous civil rights historian Taylor Branch is speaking at Town Hall tonight. Branch, of course, won the Pulitzer for Parting the Waters, the first installment in his sweeping civil rights trilogy. He just published the third and final installment, At Canaan's Edge, earlier this year. Despite the Pulitzer, Branch is an odd and frustrating writer to read. He tends to back into important stories with a barrage of unrelated anecdotes , and he compounds that problem by talking about characters before they've actually been introduced. (I have long wanted to do a comical reading of the opening chapter from Pillar... Copyright 2007 Tue, 21 Feb 2006 11:15:09 -0800 Tue, 21 Feb 2006 11:24:18 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss It's easy to forget how much of history is driven by dangerous lunatics. All of it, maybe.

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