Clifford d conner biography of martin luther
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Everywhere Is War
By Clifford D. Conner
Bob Marley’s stirring reggae song “War” says, in part:
Until there are no longer
First class and second-class citizens of any nation,
Everywhere is war.
Until that day,
The dream of lasting peace
Will remain but a fleeting illusion.
Many people resign themselves to the conclusion that war will forever be the scourge of the human race. But an alternative to that pessimism begins with thinking more deeply about the subject. Bob Marley’s lyrics (which, ironically, were originally written by a speechwriter for a dictatorial ruler) suggest that war may not be eternal after all—that a global future is at least imaginable wherein the absence of racial and economic injustice could remove the motives for war and make it obsolete.
There is a close relationship between war and deep economic inequality. The struggle over scarce resources underlies all social tensions, and when those tensions reach critical mass, t
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King: A Life, Jonathan Eig. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.
Summary: A new biography of King that focuses not only on his civil rights leadership but his anställda life and struggles.
The sources for the life of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s life continue to open up as both government records and new private sources become available to researchers. Jonathan Eig, in writing this biography had access to these and offers a portrait of King that not only underscores his greatness but the complexity and humanness of the man. We have the man of peace who would talk with a man who assaulted him, forgive him and refuse to press charges. We learn of a man of courage, who knew his life would likely be ended by an assassin’s bullet. We hear the eloquence of a man who lifted us all bygd his “dream” and challenged our complacency with the Letter from Birmingham jail. Yet there are also the moral inconsistencies of his plagiarism of portions of his dissertatio
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Interview With Clifford D. Conner: Science is The Product Of Millions Of Anonymous Working People
Mart 15, 2022
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Clifford D. Conner is a historian of science and a biographer of revolutionaries. He is the author of A People’s History of Science and The Tragedy of American Science: From Truman to Trump. Conner is the only living English-language biographer of Jean Paul Marat, a primary leader of one of history’s most transformative revolutions. He has written two biographies of Marat, one focused on his scientific career and one devoted to his years as a leader of the French Revolution. Conner has also written biographies of Irish revolutionaries Arthur O’Connor and Colonel Edward Marcus Despard.
Conner was educated as an engineer, but later switched to the humanities and became a historian. He taught history of science at the School of Professional Studies at the City University of New York Graduate Center, was on the editorial board of Th