
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Jackson, 1964 is a collection of essays from the last 50 years covering on race in the United States. The essays range from well written to really brilliant pieces of work. The coverage that Trillin chose is complete and works well beginning to end. After each essay, he has given us an update on the subject.
This is a superior collection. But it cannot be read - for me at least - without thinking that in the last 50 years, there is not enough that has changed here. I could almost imagine the same writings in today's magazines; this weighs the whole project down with ... the truth. Of course this may have been part of the point of gathering the articles; to show us how little progress has been made.
Very smart collection. The writing is fantastic and the overview of the last 50 years so important.
Born in Kansas City, Missouri, The United States
December 05, 1935
Genre Nonfiction, Cooking, Food & Wine
Calvin (Bud) Marshall Trillin is an American journalist, humorist, and novelist. He is best known for his humorous writings about food and eating, but he has also written much serious journalism, comic verse, and several books of fiction.
Trillin attended public schools in Kansas City and went on to Yale University, where he served as chairman of the Yale Daily News and became a member of Scroll and Key before graduating in 1957; he later served as a trustee of the university. After a stint in the U.S. Army, he worked as a reporter for Time magazine before joining the staff of The New Yorker in 1963. His reporting for The New Yorker on the racial integration of the University of Georgia was published in his first book, An Education in Georgia. He wrote the magazine's "U.S. Journal" series from 1967 to 1982, covering local events both serious and quirky throughout the United States.