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Saturday, August 20, 2011

Sara Mosle – Journalist, TFA Alum, Princeton Grad and Current School Teacher Dissects Steve Brill’s “Class Warfare” | Scathing Purple Musings

Sara Mosle – Journalist, TFA Alum, Princeton Grad and Current School Teacher Dissects Steve Brill’s “Class Warfare” | Scathing Purple Musings

Sara Mosle – Journalist, TFA Alum, Princeton Grad and Current School Teacher Dissects Steve Brill’s “Class Warfare”

I’ve come to accept that part of effective blogging is frequently dismissed by accusations of “taking things out of context.” This is a fair enough point, but the most effective bloggers do so for the purpose of advancing debate and providing analysis. The blogging writing form has become accepted as even well-know journalists are using it now to promote their own endeavors.

Why I felt the need to explain this here is because I’m about to use someone’s piece…..about someone else’s. On Sunday the well-respected New York Times Book Review will publish a review of Steve Brill’s Class Warfare by Sara Mosle.

It is the reviewer, Mosle, whom readers of this blog will find fascinating. In setting up her piece by detailing Brill’s