Author Archives: Dwight D. Sutherland, Jr.
Sutherland: When Smart Critics Say Dumb Things
Once more I’m in the unhappy position of writing harsh things about someone whose work otherwise has my unqualified admiration… Readers may recall my earlier piece on Whitney Terrell’s ‘The King of Kings County,’ a brilliant novel of manners set … Continue reading
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Sutherland: Deja Vu All Over Again
The scene was exactly the same for both events—the former bank lobby that is the first floor of the downtown Kansas City Public Library at 10th and Baltimore. Somewhere between eight hundred and a thousand people were crowded into its … Continue reading
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Sutherland: Hit Piece
In Robert Penn Warren‘s classic novel about American politics, “All The King’s Men”, the author created the character ‘Willie Stark’. a brilliant but ruthless demagogue inspired by Louisiana’s Huey Long. Stark orders a journalist supporter to dig up dirt on … Continue reading
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Sutherland: ‘The Second Life of John Wilkes Booth’ by Barnaby Conrad, Jr.
I wrote this book review last fall before the author, Barnaby Conrad, Jr. died. His son, the book’s editor, Barnaby Conrad, III is my brother-in-law. When I spoke to Steve Paul, the book review editor at the Kansas City Star, … Continue reading
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Sutherland: The Rise & Fall of The Kansas ‘Moderate Machine’
Last summer the entrenched “Moderate Machine” that has run Johnson County and the State of Kansas for the last 150 years went through a “Ceausescu Moment.” This is the moment when a dictatorship learns to its shock and dismay that … Continue reading
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