The New Republic

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God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It By Jim Wallis (HarperSanFrancisco, 384 pp., $24.95) Taking Faith Seriously Edited by Mary Jo Bane, Brent Coffin, and Richard Higgins (Harvard University Press, 381 pp., $29.95) READ MORE >>

Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues By Elijah Wald (Amistad, 342 pp., $24.95) Robert Johnson: Lost and Found By Barry Lee Pearson and Bill McCulloch (University of Illinois Press, 142 pp., $24.95) Martin Scorcese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey Edited by Peter Guralnick, Robert Santelli, Holly George-Warren, Christopher John Farley (Amistad, 287 pp., $27.95)   READ MORE >>

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Rolling Stone Magazine: The Uncensored History by Robert Draper (Doubleday, 389 pp., $19.95) Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream Gonzo Papers: Volume 3 by Hunter S. Thompson (Summit Books, 315 pp., $21.95) Blown Away: The Rolling Stones and the Death of the Sixties by A. E. Hotchner (Simon and Schuster, 349 pp., $21.95) READ MORE >>

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This piece was originally published on August 24, 1968. William Faulkner located Mulberry Street so precisely and described its major industry so vividly in one of his early novels that lustful visitors from the rural mid-South memorized the passage and used it as their guide to the rows of dingy houses where three-dollar whores did business until the military authorities forced the city to clean up the neighborhood during World War II. READ MORE >>