The Death and Rebirth of American Radicalism differentiates the "Social Justice Left" from "Cultural Radicalism" and the various social movements for individual freedom. In The Death and Rebirth of American Radicalism; Stanley Aronowitz asks the question; "Is there anything left of the Left?" With the rise of Newt Gingrich and his "Contract With America;" how is it that conservativism staged such a remarkable recovery after being discounted in the turbulent 1960s? Aronowitz addresses these and other burning issues of contemporary politics.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy GGood book with great and exciting ideas and graphics.7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. A few decent pictures in a sea of babbleBy R. MuttTo start with; let me clarify that this is not a book about architectural drawing. It is a book about rendering ideas visually using every type of media you can imagine. So for every example of a drawing there are about ten examples of paintings; models; and an abundance of the typical modern 3D models gone horribly wrong. Add to this Cooks inability to clearly state any point; and you have a pretty bad example of an architectural drawing book.Heres a quick example of the kind of twisted verbosity youll have to wade through while reading this book:"If it is the recurrent thesis of this book that drawing - of every kind - is a motor that absorbs imagination and converts it into usable or transferable information or inspiration; thus self-consciousness is but another form of evaluation."Ignore the terrible structuring and obvious lack of logical thinking; and you get a statement about how drawing is a way to capture and transfer information. And this was one of Cooks attempts to clarify himself! You can only imagine how badly the rest of the book reads.I found that Cooks attempt is just an exercise in pretentious slog of the type youd hear spewing from some theorists mouth at a black-tie exhibit. There are comparatively few visual examples given for the volume of text; and some examples are profoundly worthwhile (Arthur Beresford Pite; Neil Denari; Hans Poelzig) while the vast majority simply are not.This is my second attempt at reading an Architectural Design (AD) series book and trying to make sense of it or find anything useful to take away from it. Both attempts have been failures. I have a third one coming; and Im now starting to really worry about it.Recommended substitutes:Visual Notes for Architects and Designers by Norman Crowe and Paul LaseauArchitects Sketchbooks by Will Jones and Narinder SagooThe first book is an excellent primer on the reasoning and methods behind visually rendering ideas and observations. The second book is a compendium of architectural renderings; mostly in crude form; showing the formation of ideas without letting the books text get in the way. Go forth; learn; and be inspired. And if you want vacuous babble then theres plenty of that online; so theres no need to buy this book.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Architectural DrawingBy P. BigelowPeter Cook attempts to impart information regarding the role drawing plays in the architectrsquo;s progress from the nascent idea to a fully-realized concept of a building. Unfortunately; he gets in his own way with his verbiage. He seems incapable of explaining anything simply; elegantly. We are told by the publisher that Cook is one of the the ldquo;greatest proponentsrdquo; of the ldquo;creative and inventive significance of drawing for achitecture.rdquo; However; in reading Cooks words; I didnrsquo;t see him as a proponent of anything other than his own ego.What I found most interesting about this book were the drawings by architects who didnrsquo;t have computers and computer software to do their drawings for them; for instance; Hermann Finsterlinrsquo;s and Iakov Chernikhovrsquo;s drawings from the 1920s.If you are looking for a book detailing the role of drawing by hand in architecture today; this is not the book for you.