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Summary: why I want to see this book
Review: The is not a true review: indeed, I have not yet recived the book for Amazon.I just came home from a dinner with Peter Mattiessen at the University of Tulsa, at which he spoke passionately of the phyiscal and finacinal effort Mr. Banerjee undertook to create this work, the reaction in Congress to the book, the pressure upon the Smithsonian and the American Muesum of American History to quash display of Mr. Banerjee's photographs, and his personal fears of deportation or worse by the Justice Department under the Patriot Act. A most frightening portral of the reach real or reasonably feared of this Adminstration when an individual, spcially an alien, dares question its motive. As Senator Stevens(R)Alaska, chair of the Senate Appropriate committee was reported to say to his colleages after Banerjee's testimony, and the Senate voted 52-48 against drilling in ANWR, "I know who you are and you will pay". To cause such a reaction--it must be worth having.
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Summary: What the Bush Administration wants to suppress
Review: The photographs are stunning. It tells the story of a place that the proponents of oil drilling in the Refuge called "white nothingness." Banerjee proves how wrong they were. The photographs have upset the White House or the Republicans so much that they somehow managed to drain a scheduled exhibition of Banerjee's work at the Smithsonian of all its value. See the New York Times article of 2 May 2003, p. A22 This utterly fascinating book deserves extensive circulation on its merits. In light of the administration's attempt to suppress this work at the Smithsonian it is an act of defiance to see that it has maximum circulation!
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