From The Nation

Nation editors look toward the next four years of the Bush Administration and wonder how long it will take before Americans demand a change in direction. "The Bush team is sophisticated in propaganda, well versed in the uses of deception to avoid accountability. Bush's policies, however, are damaging this country and his priorities are not widely shared. Democrats would be well-advised to oppose them, but with the faint hearted among them already wringing their hands and sounding retreat, an aroused progressive movement will be needed to provide the necessary backbone.

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Joe Strummer's untimely death at the age of fifty in December 2002 took from us one of the truly unique voices of modern music. Effectively melding raw creativity with radical politics, Strummer transformed punk rock from its early associations with reactionary, right wing and nihilistic politics into a social movement. Nation Books has just released Let Fury Have The Hour: The Punk Rock Politics of Joe Strummer, edited by Antonino D'Ambrosio. It collects articles, interviews, essays and reviews that chronicle Strummer's life both as a musician and a political activist. As Publishers Weekly noted: "Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin, and a pair of bondage trousers," writes Billy Bragg, and documentarian/activist D'Ambrosio proves it with this gathering of skillfully selected articles and essays on Clash front man Joe Strummer (1952–2002), from the likes of Lester Bangs, Chuck D, Greil Marcus and D'Ambrosio himself."

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