On Wednesday, May 7th, 5:30pm, the editors and staff of Monthly Review Press will host a reception for Doug Dowd to celebrate the publication of his new book, BLUES FOR AMERICA: A CRITIQUE, A LAMENT, AND SOME MEMORIES. Please join us at 122 West 27th Street, 10th floor, NYC, (212) 691-2555. Advance Praise for BLUES FOR AMERICA: "BLUES FOR AMERICA is a scholar's deft survey of everything that happened between the 1920s and the 1990s related with surprising wit and an amazingly gracious turn of phrase ..."--BARBARA EHRENREICH "A vivid, witty, moving account of much of the history of this century by someone who was there when it mattered ..."--NOAM CHOMSKY "Personal, provocative, and elegantly written, BLUES FOR AMERICA ought to be widely read, and relished ..."--JONATHAN KOZOL "It is rare to find a book written with style and loaded with substance, an education in itself, and a pleasure to read."--HOWARD ZINN In BLUES FOR AMERICA, Doug Dowd has written a narrative filled with incisive observations and biting humor that is at once autobiography and an economic history of the perplexing "American Century." DOUG DOWD is a distinguished economist and professorial lecturer in International Economics at the Bologna Center, Johns Hopkins University, Bologna, Italy. A national figure in the movement to end the Vietnam War, Dowd has taught at the University of California, Berkeley; the University of California, Santa Cruz; San Jose State and San Francisco State Universities; and Cornell University, where he was Chair of the Economics Department. He has received Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships, and is the author of several books.
