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Victory Is Assured: Uncollected Writings of Stanley Crouch

By (author) Stanley Crouch, Edited by Glenn Mott, Introduction by Jelani Cobb, Afterword by Wynton Marsalis

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With Stanley Crouchâ€™s untimely death in 2020, American literature lost â€œa critic without peerâ€ (Ta-Nehisi Coates). Born in Los Angeles in 1945, Crouchâ€”a towering stylist, fearless columnist, and without question, one of the finest jazz critics of all timeâ€”was Rabelaisian both in stature and in intellectual appetite. Beloved yet cantankerous, Crouch delighted and enflamed the passions of his readers in equal measure, whether writing about race, politics, literature, or music. In these essaysâ€”some discovered on his computer, unpublished until nowâ€”Crouch tackles subjects ranging from Malcolm X (â€œa thorned bud standing in the shadow of sequoiasâ€) to the films of Quentin Tarantino (â€œWith Django, Tarantino has slipped down . . . into a shallow and bloodstained hip-hop turn that his own best work has well-refutedâ€). Introduced by Jelani Cobb, with an afterword by Wynton Marsalis, and collected by his longtime editor Glenn Mott, Victory Is Assured canonizes the legacy of an inimitable, indispensable American critic.