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
2 comments:
Joe,
Apparently you have no budget for wiper blade refills! Good grief man, change those blades!
The snow removal thing is big, but unfortunately nobody seems to remember it when we start the budget discussions every June.
Keep it in the public eye.
ok, so the wiper blade comment is hackneyed by now (a bit like the no-plows-in-sight thing we all say whenever we need to drive somewhere and have to go 25 miles per hour instead of 35 or 45), but it was still funny to watch. (as if i even have two blades on my car!)
i started to hear missouri-side (midtown, main streets, near hospitals) plows on saturday around 9 p.m., when most of the snow was done falling.
sunday, there was plowing everywhere except most sidestreets, which, really, are still navigable today if you don't have to rush around too much.
it really only snows in kc two or three times a winter.
of course, we still got stuck on our still-iced-over, unplowed and slushy street. no plowing or salt on the 11th or 12th, no plowing or salting after the latest fall, either.
any bored reporters want to do a study on how many snow-related accidents there were and how costly it was to the city's police and capital repairs budget?
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