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Stanley Crouch on 'Reasons of State'

Stanley Crouch on 'Reasons of State'

Update: 2020-05-29

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For decades, Stanley Crouch has cut a singular path through American culture. Once an aspiring jazz musician and later a noted cultural critic, he was friends with Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray, and later an intellectual mentor to Wynton Marsalis. For all of his intellectual virtuosity, we were still surprised to discover the book that Crouch wanted to recommend: Alejo Carpentier’s “Reasons of State.”

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Stanley Crouch on 'Reasons of State'

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