In their informative texts, authors Amina Okada and M.C. Joshi provide historical and architectural analyses of the Taj Mahal. Quotations from the Koran and from the journals of travelers as diverse as Jean-Bapiste Tavernier, Pierre Loti, and Aldous Huxley complete a breathtaking tribute.
If you still believe sixties radicalism was nothing more than youthful middle-class confusion or parochial identity politics, then open these pages and dig.--Robin D. G. Kelley
It should be required reading for those interested in the modern history of social movements and for radicals of my generation who are trying to find out what went wrong.
The breadth of Elbaum's knowledge... marks this book as an absolutely first-rate work of political scholarship.
Truly a superb work of scholarship that raises all the right questions...