Pynchon re Einstein on Race and Racism WAS Re: ATD: cover seal

[bob mccart]

Does anyone have a list of the books he's blurbed? I stumbled on one myself
recently: The Curious and Frighjtening Reign of Phil by that guy who
teachers at Syracuse. I forget his name at the moment.

On 11/1/06, pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Reserving judgement on the political content of the
> seal, if any, in the ATD cover context.
>
> I have in hand a copy of a book Pynchon blurbed last
> year, Einstein on Race and Racism.
>
> From the Preface:
>
> "More than one hundred biographies and monographs
> about Albert Einstein have been published, yet not one
> of them mentions the name Paul Robeson, let alone
> Einstein's friendship with him; or the name W.E.B. Du
> Bois, let alone Einstein's support for him.
> ...Despsite Einstein's clear intention to make his
> politics public--especially his antilynching and other
> antiracist activities--the history-molders have seemed
> embarrassed to do so. Or nervous. ...Racism in America
> depends for its survival in large part on the
> smothering of antiracist voices, especially when those
> voices come from popular and widely respecvted
> individuals--like Albert Einstein,. This book, then,
> aspires to be part of a grand unsmothering."
>
> I haven't seen a copy of the hardcover edition, with
> Pynchon's blurb, but here's what it's supposed to say:
>
> "A fascinating and timely upgrade to our current
> perceptions ofEinstein, redeemed from the careful
> silences of official narrative. Allowing the voices of
> the people who lived it to tell the story, Jerome and
> Taylor have brilliantly given us back a part of our
> history, refocusing attention on the heart and soul of
> what Einstein's life was always about."
>
> Einstein on Race and Racism, by Fred Jerome and
> Rodger Taylor. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 2005.
> Back jacket.
>
> In recent weeks, I've looked at almost all of the
> books Pynchon has blurbed over the years.  It makes an
> ecelectic collection, and an interesting look into
> Pynchon's concerns.
>
> I won't be going out on a limb to predict that Pynchon
> deals with black-white race issues in Against the Day.
>
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