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In Only Love Can Break Your Heart David Samuels writes with a reportorialacumen and stylistic flair that recall the pioneering New Journalism of GayTalese Tom Wolfe and Joan Didion. Combining elegant nuanced personal essayswith farout reportingon the lives of radicals in the Pacific Northwestantiabortion zealots demolition experts suburban hiphop stars and moreSamuels shows us an American landscape whose unsettling mix of profounddislocations and bluesky optimism is both instantly recognizable andthrillingly new. The collection is anchored by Samuelss funny wildlyinventive accounts of big events like Woodstock 99 Donald Rumsfelds pressconferences at the Pentagon a George Bush fundraiser at a mall in Texas andSuper Bowl XL in Detroit. These essays display his unusual sensitivity to boththe tragic and comic dissonances that bubble up from the gap between theAmerican promise of endless nirvana and the lives of salesman dreamers agingbaseball legends billionaire crackpots atomic test site workers and dogtrack bettors who struggle to live out their dreams one day at a time. «
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