‘Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President’ Portrays an Over-Simplified Man
The nostalgic, feel-good documentary, Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President, explores Carter's connections to the music world but misses a lot about this not-so-simple man.
Zachary J. Lechner, Ph.D.
Zachary holds a Ph.D. in history from Temple University. He's the author of a number of published articles and the recent book, The South of the Mind: American Imaginings of White Southernness, 1960-1980 (UGA Press, 2018), a crossover academic title. This book includes discussions of the political and cultural meaning of a number of popular culture works, including The Andy Griffith Show, In the Heat of the Night, Deliverance, sixties-era country rock music, and 1970s southern rock.
‘Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom’ Is as Monumental as the Man It Chronicles
Noted historian David W. Blight offers readers the fullest portrait of Frederick Douglass yet in this "biography of a voice".
‘Garage’: A Visually and Intellectually Rich Study of a Seemingly Blank Space
Olivia Erlanger and Luis Ortega Govela's Garage challenges the beguiling, energizing, and yet limiting power of the garage in America as a symbol of escape and reinvention.
Buzzcocks’ ‘Love Bites’ Is an Uneven, But Worthwhile, Listen
Although the Buzzcocks were a singles band, their overlooked second album, Love Bites (1978), is still a solid effort, and it sounds better than ever on this reissue.
