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18 January 2011

Cornel West's Hope on a Tightrope

HopeonaTIghtropeA returning guest to The Colbert Report,  Cornel West speaks about hope, social justice and dignity.  His book Hope on a Tightrope just came out in paperback.

West is a professor at Princeton and a noted civil rights activist, and West and Colbert talk for a little while in this interview about love as social justice.  Then, somehow, Colbert brings the conversation to Michael Bolton.  Uh-hunh.

West's book is a collection of essays, speechs, and quotes about the state of America and the state of humanity.  West is a trained philosopher and his work is founded in diversity of intellectual thought, but this book is written for a general public.  It's not a book of jargon, but a book of inspiration.

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