Tag Archives: Barack Obama

Barack Obama’s Literary Legacies (Purcell/Veggian eds, 2016) reviewed by JAS

The Journal of American Studies review of the essay collection:

Thoughts on ‘Readings of Dreams from My Father’, Five Years Later

The publication history of Barack Obama’s Literary Legacy: Readings of Dreams from my Father began ten years ago. Its becoming deserves explanation. Why? Because it was nearly aborted due to lack of interest. The book itself was five years in the making. Now, five years after its publication, and 10 years after its inception, I […]

Richard Purcell discusses Barack Obama’s First Book

The article linked below is the first published news story about Barack Obama’s Literary Legacies: Readings of Dreams from My Father. In this article Purcell, the volume’s co-editor, discusses the new book, which is a diverse collection of critical and scholarly essays. The book is now available to order. In the coming days, I will […]

A Sweet Fishing Life

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Rough fish in the river

Appreciating all the river has to offer