Alive to history in the making (and the weight of the past) this volume examines Obama's presidency and Lyndon Johnson's the killing of Trayvon Martin and the death of Andrew Breitbart Occupy Wall Street and America Beyond Capitalism. It presents essays poems and plays that speak to our times and challenge the liberal imagination. The title That Floating Bridge evokes Representative John Lewis' lineâObama is what comes at the end of that bridge in Selmaâas it quotes a track on Gregg Allman's Low Country Blues which Scott Spencer lauds here in a review for the Ages. That Floating Bridge's peerless range of contributors includes Amiri Baraka Gar Alperovitz Bernard Avishai Uri Avnery Bill Ayers Paul Berman John Chernoff Mark Dudzic Carmelita Estrellita Henry Farrell Fr. Rick Frechette Donna Gaines David Golding Eugene Goodheart Lawrence Goodwyn Lisa Guenther Alec Harrington Malcolm Harris Casey Hayden Christopher Hayes Patterson Hood Roxane Johnson Ben Kessler Bob Levin Philip Levine Bongani Madondo Greil Marcus Scott McLemee Judy Oppenheimer Jedediah Purdy Nick Salvatore Aram Saroyan Tom Smucker Fredric Smoler Violet Socks A. B. Spellman Scott Spencer Richard Torres Jesmyn Ward and Pablo Yglesias. An account of how Franz Boas did more to combat race prejudice than any other person anchorsone section but the volume also addresses devolutions of diversity linked with careerism in the art world and academe. An un-scholastic section titled Criticism of Lifecelebrates older and younger critics/poets. Songs are key to this volume's good times. Music writingâranging from Eddie Hinton's Very Extremely Dangerous to Berlioz's Romeo and Julietâenhances the pleasures of this text. . Language: English