msantow's Profile
Prof of history, UMass-Dartmouth. Author of "Social Security & the Middle Class Squeeze" & forthcoming "Saul Alinsky the Dilemma of Race in the PostWar City." focus on cities, social policy, politics. Writing book on home ownership in US.
Real Name: Mark Santow
Location: Providence, RI, USA
Occupation: History Professor
Home Page: http://chantsdemocratic.blogspot.com/
Twitter: alinskylives
Diaries published: 12 (1158 days since last diary on Fri Nov 22, 2013 at 08:40 AM PST)
Comments posted: 21 (1158 days since last comment on Fri Nov 22, 2013 at 08:40 AM PST)
Diary frequency: seldom
Comment frequency: often
Total Recommends: 119
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Most Recommended Diary: To Nelson Mandela, my favorite college professor, 20 comments, 56 recommends
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A half-century has elapsed since that cold Dallas day when President John F. Kennedy was murdered. Even now, these events continue to capture our imagination. Why? Surely some of it stems from ...
by msantow
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on Fri Nov 22, 2013 at 08:40 AM PST
with 2 Recommends
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A political prisoner changed my life.
That man, now free -- always free, really -- wore number 466 at Robben Island prison in South Africa. Today, he is slowly dying in a hospital bed in ...
by msantow
 20 comments
on Mon Jun 24, 2013 at 10:18 PM PDT
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Back in October 2012, New York Times writer Scott Shane described the idea of 'American exceptionalism' as an "opiate,“ inducing a kind of hubristic national stupor that prevents us from seeing ...
by msantow
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on Thu Jan 10, 2013 at 09:51 AM PST
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This year , for the first time, the Tainted Five of baseball's Steroid Era are eligible for the Hall of Fame: Roger Clemens, Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, Barry Bonds, and Rafael Palmeiro.
And Royce ...
by msantow
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on Tue Jan 08, 2013 at 05:41 PM PST
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I really don't know what to say about the events in CT today, so close to where I grew up, at precisely the time my own children were in school. Tragic events like this are, in the end, inexplicable -
by msantow
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on Sat Dec 15, 2012 at 06:53 AM PST
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"The billionaire donors I hear are livid ... There is some holy hell to pay. Karl Rove has a lot of explaining to do ... I don't know how you tell your donors that we spent $390 million and got ...
by msantow
9 comments
on Fri Nov 09, 2012 at 01:23 PM PST
with 12 Recommends
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