Scott Saul

Scott Saul, an associate professor of English and American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, is the author of Freedom Is, Freedom Ain’t: Jazz and the Making of the Sixties. He is writing a critical biography of Richard Pryor.

Currently

  • Suspended Sentences

    September 30, 2009

    Eliot Weinberger's enigmatic essays save him from becoming a prisoner of his polemical style.

  • Off Camera

    June 3, 2009

    Sweet Land of Liberty is a bold, if decidedly underdramatic, rewriting of civil rights history.

2008

  • Sweet Martin's Badass Song

    May 1, 2008 Subscribe

    Several new books on Martin Luther King take a closer look at the rhetoric and economic politics of the civil rights icon.

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Blogs

» The Beat

House Passes "Historic" Health Reform | Pelosi secures necessary votes, but only after accepting unsettling limits on abortion rights demanded by anti-choice Democrats.
John Nichols
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» Editor's Cut

Around The Nation | Obama, one year on. Plus: Jeremy Scahill takes your questions, and a new video series from The Nation.
Katrina vanden Heuvel

» The Notion

Injustice in Illinois | Prosecutors in Illinois should be more concerned with an innocent man behind bars than journalism students' grades.
Ari Berman
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» The Dreyfuss Report

Obama Fails in Middle East | Clinton delivers the ultimate diss to Abbas.
Robert Dreyfuss
128 Comments

» Act Now!

Equality Across America | This week, young LBGT activists are staging a National Week of Initiative.
Peter Rothberg
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» Altercation

Slacker Thursday | Dying laptops, recapping the election, the Dow, and the Yankees with the World Series.
Eric Alterman