<DIV><DIV><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">A passionate examination of the social and economic injustices that continue to shackle the American people</P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"> </P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">Praise for <I>Workin' on the Chain Gang:</I></P><DIV><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"> </P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">?. . . bracing and provocative. . . .”</P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">?<I>Publishers Weekly</I></P></DIV><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"> </P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">?. . . clear-sighted . . . Mosley offers chain-breaking ideas. . . .”</P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">?<I>Los Angeles</I><I> Times Book Review</I></P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"> </P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">?[A] thoroughly potent dismantling of <I>Yanqui</I> capitalism, the media, and the entertainment business, and at the same time a celebration of rebellion, truth as a tool for emancipation, and much else besides. . . .”</P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">?<I>Toronto</I><I> Globe and Mail</I></P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"> </P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">?<I>Workin' on the Chain Gang</I> excels at expressing feelings of ennui that transcend race. . . . beautiful language and penetrating insights into the necessity of confronting the past.”</P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">?<I>Washington</I><I> Post</I></P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"> </P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">?Mosley eloquently examines what liberation from consumer capitalism might look like. . . . readers receptive to a progressive critique of the religion of the market will value Mosley's creative contribution.”</P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">?<I>Booklist</I></P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none"> </P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none">Walter Mosley's most recent essay collection is <I>Life Out of Context,</I> published in 2006. He is the best-selling author of the science fiction novel <I>Blue Light,</I> five critically acclaimed mysteries featuring Easy Rawlins, the blues novel <I>RL's Dream,</I> a finalist for the NAACP Award in Fiction, and winner of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association's Literary Award. His books have been translated into twenty languages. He lives in New York.</P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none"> </P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; mso-layout-grid-align: none">Clyde Taylor is Professor of Africana Studies at NYU's Gallatin School and author of <I>The Mask of Art: Breaking the Aesthetic Contract?Film and Literature</I>.</P></DIV></DIV>