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A Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year
A Publisher's Weekly Best Book of the Year
One of Kansas City Star's 100 Noteworthy Books of the Year
Winner of the William Rockhill Nelson Award for Nonfiction
Winner of the Harry Chapin Media Award
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Forget the nerdy reputation that debate has. Instead think of a scenario as exciting as a sports game with high stakes like triumphing over racism. bad politics and abject poverty... An important, thoughtful and provocative look at race and class in America.
- The Boston Globe
Joe Miller's enthusiasm is infectious and the plot creates the suspense of a good courtroom thriller.
- Entertainment Weekly
The minute I finished Joe Miller's Cross-X, I held the book out in front of me -- amazed, rapturous, and hopeful... Miller's mesmerizing, vivid accounts of the debates will leave you crouched in your seat, holding your breath... An incredibly powerful, daringly hopeful book.
- Minneapolis Star-Tribune
Irresistible... Miller begins breezily but is soon deeply invested in the Central squad's mission to not only master the debate game on its own terms but revolutionize it with flashes of poetry and hip-hop wordplay... If all these kids could run things, Miller implies, imagine what could get done.
- Elle
3 comments:
It's great that they reviewed it. However, it's sad that the writer seemingly didn't put two and two together to realize that the same Marcus Leach in the book is also the student at UMKC--and then go write something about that, too.
I'm really flattered that you posted my review on your blog. Thank you so much! I truly loved reading Cross-x, so much so that I was pretending to do work during class while actually your book. You definitely hit on issues that many people don't want to think about in Kansas City. Thank you for writing a book that shows these issues as they are and not as we pretend they are.
Also, a sidenote to heidi; I do know that Marcus Leach goes to UMKC. He does some fantastic opinon columns every now and then that you should definitely read. However, I thought it would be out of place to discuss that in a book review.
Thanks, Jessie, for your kind words. I'm glad you liked the books so much.
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