Ron Powers
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December 2016
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No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America
15 editions
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2017
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Mark Twain: A Life
22 editions
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2005
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Tom and Huck Don't Live Here Anymore: Childhood and Murder in the Heart of America
8 editions
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2001
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Dangerous Water: A Biography Of The Boy Who Became Mark Twain
11 editions
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1967
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White Town Drowsing: Journeys to Hannibal
6 editions
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1986
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Far from Home: Life and Loss in Two American Towns
4 editions
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1991
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The Beast, the Eunuch, and the Glass-Eyed Child: Television in the '80s
4 editions
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1990
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The Newscasters: The News Business as Show Business
5 editions
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1977
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Supertube: The Rise of Television Sports
2 editions
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1984
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“To begin consciously searching into the world of mental illness is to see it snap into focus before your eyes. It is everywhere. It has been hiding in plain sight, awaiting notice. Its camouflage is little more than the human instinct to reject engagement with the pitiable, the fearsome, the unspeakable—and to close our eyes to the moral obligations that those states of being demand of us.”
― No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America
― No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America
“Mark Twain was virtually alone among journalists in his reportage of Jewish Europeans as caught in the pincers of rising nationalist antagonisms.”
― Mark Twain: A Life
― Mark Twain: A Life
“...I have sometimes imagined my own sanity as resting on the surface of a membrane, a thin and fragile membrane that can easily be ripped open, plunging me into the abyss of madness, where I join the tumbling souls whose membranes have likewise been pieced over the ages. Sometimes, when my thoughts are especially fevered, I can visualize the agent of this piercing. It is a watchful presence at the edge of things, silent and dripping, a stranger in a raincoat... When we fall into such psychosis, there are no other membranes below to catch and protect us. And the horror and helplessness of the fall are intensified by an uncaring world.”
― No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America
― No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America
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