Skip to main content

power at ground zero by lynne sagalyn

I really wanted to like this well-researched history of the post 9/11 reconstruction effort, but it’s just too poorly written to be worth the effort, with everything from confusing organization of timelines to ambiguous sentence construction hindering what is already a very dry (albeit important and fascinating) topic. 

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott

This historical treatise has a lot of notoriety but I found it unnecessarily dense, and ultimately flawed, in that its focus on states and state power ignores a related discussion of capitalist power, such that altho there is a useful perspective to glean here about how a drive for social legibility can transform a society, I wouldn't recommend the book overall.