Serpents in the Garden: Liaisons with Culture & Sex
The latest in the award-winning Counterpunch series detonates an explosion of voracious, opinionated and witty fireworks on the unexpected intersections of politics, art, music, architecture and sex.\ In addition to 13 essays by Cockburn and St. Clair—dissecting everything from Angelina Jolie’s connections to sex, death and the French Revolution to their famous “best books of the last 100 years.” Serpents in the Garden showcases essays from the nation’s most exciting and radical cultural...
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Everything you wanted to know about culture but were afraid to ask.
By way of an introduction : the best books of the twentieth centuryCulture1Milk-bars, Hollywood and the march of empires3Jolene : on the line in Detroit13The butterfly has landed23Binti Jua's family values31Take two hits and call me in the morning35Hitler on Buchanan41The incomplete, true, authentic and wonderful history of May Day45Music63From gospel to the birth of soul : Sam Cooke and the Soul Stirrers65From Birmingham to Nashville : the making of Tammy Wynette79How Dylan found his voice : Big Joe Williams, the East Village, Peyote and the forging of Dylan's art85The myth of Newport '65 : it wasn't Bob Dylan They Were booing91Seduced by a legend : the return of Jimmy T99 Nelson99A conversation with the blues : the music of Big Bill Broonzy113Waylon Jennings, 1937-2002 : an honest outlaw117Mr. Big Stuff, Alan Lomax : great white hunter or thief, plagiarist and bigot?121The story of death row records125By the hand of the father131Ken Burns doesn't really like music135Did the CIA poison Paul Robeson?141Art and architecture145The jackboot of Dada : Salvador Dali, fascist147Max Dupain, Olive Cotton and the Aboriginal Tent Embassy151Freud's house167Flesh and its discontents : the paintings of Lucian Freud177The rich and their castles in Spain, part I : Mizner in Florida187Brett Weston : a natural eye197The rich and their castles in Spain, part II : Hearst and Morgan in California209Usonian utopias : Frank Lloyd Wright, low-cost housing and the FBI219The World Trade Towers : an architecture of doom and dread233Proposal for a landscape of learning237Ripley's world241Sex249Love button251Eros meets civilization : Gershon Legman confronts the post office253Prison bitch : nothing funny about it271Pee Wee, Townshend and Ritter277Unsafe at any speed : youth, sex and the heresies of Judith Levine281It's a sex thing285Covering justice : Ashcroft's breast fetish291Angelina Jolie and the French Revolution295A visit to the Kinsey Institute301Let them perfect love-making309The hoofprints of Lucifer315Death323Ted's spell325Edward said, dead at 67331A note on the cover337
