My Year 2009: Facing the Heat

In My Year 2009: Facing the Heat, the 8th volume to appear in Douglas Messerli’s on-going cultural memoirs, the author expresses that he suspected, what with the beginning of Barack Obama’s presidency, the country would have to face “the heat,” so speak, the wrath of the divided electorate and legislatures, mirrored in works of travel, literature, art, dance, and film.