Grasping for the Wind

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Summary: A moving synthesis of art, politics, and philosophy . . .
Review: Constitutional lawyer John Whitehead displays a flexible intellect as he explores the intellectual and social movements in art, music, film, literature, politics, and philosophy over the past century. The book is extremely readable and provides an interesting way to survey vast amounts of accumulated thought. Readers will be hard pressed to reconcile the fact that Paula Jones' attorney and the writer of this book are the same man.

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Summary: What's the point?
Review: He says that "we seem to be at the end of a long experiment..." This book is a collection of ridiculous historical observations with an astonishing lack of depth from a constitutional lawyer, and the author rolls over every possible historical event like a steamroller. The book presents itself as history, but it's really the author lamenting the loss of Christian values and how technology has been bad for society. Strange.