Description: Further DetailsTitle: FlightsCondition: NewSubtitle: Radicals on the RunEAN: 9781682194317ISBN: 9781682194317Publisher: OR BooksFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 07/04/2024Description: Told through the lives of the American Century’s most talented and stubborn dissidents, Flights is the archetypal hero’s journey of a group of progressives whose struggle for truth, and for freedom from persecution, sent them into exile, both literal and metaphorical. Wanted for a crime she did not commit, Professor Angela Davis went on the run in 1970, describing the struggle against panic in her nightly safehouse transfers: “Living as a fugitive means resisting hysteria, distinguishing between the creations of a frightened imagination and the real signs that the enemy is near.” In her quest “to elude him, outsmart him,” she recalled, “Thousands of my ancestors had waited, as I had…for nightfall to cover their steps…” Davis is just one of a rich array of refugees portrayed here by Joel Whitney, all forced to flee homes and/or friends because of their progressive stance. In these pages are compelling profiles of Seymour Hersh, Lorraine Hansberry, Graham Greene, Paul Robeson, Gabriel García Márquez, George & Mary Oppen, Frances Stonor Saunders, Malcolm X, Octavio Paz, Diego Rivera, Angela Davis, Leonard Peltier, N. Scott Momaday, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan guerrilla fighter Everado and his American wife Jennifer Harbury, Nobel Peace laureate Rigoberta Menchú, deposed Honduran President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya and murdered Lenca environmentalist Berta Cáceres. At once a group portrait of these geniuses of creative escape, Flights is also a prehistory (and indictment) of American mass surveillance, culminating in Edward Snowden’s revelations, of torture, culminating in Abu Ghraib, of censorship, culminating in the incarceration of journalist Julian Assange, of fascism, culminating in January 6, and of political murder, culminating in the Bush-Obama-Trump air assassination program.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 203mmItem Length: 139mmAuthor: Joel WhitneyGenre: Law & PoliticsTopic: Social Sciences, Society & CultureRelease Year: 2024 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Flights
Title: Flights
Subtitle: Radicals on the Run
EAN: 9781682194317
ISBN: 9781682194317
Release Date: 07/04/2024
Release Year: 2024
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Book Title: Flights : Radicals on the Run
Number of Pages: 388 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Or Books, LLC
Item Height: 0.9 in
Topic: Censorship, Privacy & Surveillance (See Also Social Science / Privacy & Surveillance), United States / General
Publication Year: 2024
Genre: Political Science, History
Item Weight: 15.5 Oz
Item Length: 8.2 in
Author: Joel Whitney
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback