Slate, Book Review Jack London’s many sides emerge in James L. Haley’s Wolf.
”At one point, London says socialism’s strength is that it ‘transcends race prejudice’ — but then that prejudice returns, just as vicious as before. When he visits Hawaii, he is in awe of its native culture, but then demands the United States conquer it just the same.” Color me shocked ... I didn’t realize this about the man. The very first book I ever ‘got into’ as a child, the one that took me from passive reading to involved, connected reading was ”White Fang”. Funnily enough, I never bothered to read “Call of the Wild”, the more popular of his books. Every time I cracked it, it never seemed as interesting as the former.
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