by Dr. Gordon Mantler | Jun 11, 2013 | About the Book
Last week, I took the “Page 99 test.” If you’re not familiar with it, novelist and critic Ford Madox Ford believed that one should “open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.” So I...
by Dr. Gordon Mantler | Mar 26, 2013 | About the Book, In the Press
This last month has been a bit of a blur. Power to the Poor came out in late February and I have had the chance to discuss the Poor People’s Campaign, the public memory of the civil rights movement, and black-brown coalition in several venues, most recently on WUNC’s...
by Dr. Gordon Mantler | Feb 5, 2013 | About the Book
Clearly, I have not quite gotten the hang of writing my own blog in any consistent way. I would like to blame the holidays, the flu that turned into pneumonia (despite receiving a flu shot!), January conference travel, and the beginning weeks of the spring semester....
by Dr. Gordon Mantler | Dec 19, 2012 | About the Book
This will be just a short post, but I had to acknowledge this bit of news: I received the first official copy of my book today! Power to the Poor won’t be available to the public for another two months – a gap that remains one of the many mysteries of the book...