Washington Post Book Club: THE MANIFESTO OF HERMAN MELVILLE

Shout in Washington Post Book Club (only print):

 
"Barry Sanders, a cultural historian who taught for decades at Pitzer College, recently released a passionate book called The Manifesto of Herman Melville (O/R Books). Sanders’s environmental perspective positions “Moby-Dick” as “a powerful indictment of this country’s ruthless economy, a time when machines, in their inexhaustible power, began to assume a sublime status, the mechanical taking charge over the natural, the machine over the human.”"