John Brown

Mon 11.02.09| Bisson on Harpers Ferry; Taibo on 1969

Terry Bisson, "John Brown -- 150 Years After Harpers Ferry" Monthly Review (Oct. 2009)

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Paco Ignacio Taibo II, 68 Seven Stories Press, 2004

On the 150th anniversary of John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, author Terry Bisson talks about Brown's legacy, as well as his own radical activism in the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee, science fiction, and the evangelical Left Behind novels. And celebrated novelist Paco Ignacio Taibo speaks about the dark years following the massacre of students in Mexico City in 1968.

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