it’s a rambunctious, irresistible 500-page doozy.
Pretty sweet!
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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
4 comments:
Wow! I've already ordered it from Amazon - I can't wait to read it!
So should we order it early from Amazon or wait until you do a local book signing and buy it at the bookstore.
You do plan to do a book signing in KC first?
that's so great, joe!!! congrats.
My book signing in KC will be November 7 at Unity Temple on the Plaza. To get tickets to that, you need to buy a book at Rainy Day Books. I don't think it has to be my book, but it needs to be a hardcover, I think.
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