Always in Pursuit: Fresh American Perspectives

In Always in Pursuit iconoclastic essayist and columnist Stanley Crouch collects some of his best work from 1995 through 1997. His interests are far-reaching, but Crouch's central concern is how U.S. residents work to further American democracy. He takes heart that so few believed Susan Smith, the white South Carolina woman who murdered her children and then said a black man had done it; chides Jesse Jackson for failing to live up to his potential as a leader; and speaks out in support of affirmative action simply because no one has proposed a better solution. Sometimes outrageous, sometimes abstruse, Crouch is never anything less than interesting.