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Flights
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Flights

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Told through the lives of the American Century's most talented and stubborn dissidents,Flightsis 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 Garca Mrquez, George & Mary Oppen, Frances Stonor Saunders, Malcolm X, Octavio Paz, Diego Rivera, Angela Davis, Leonard Peltier, N. Scott Momaday, Miguel ngel Asturias, Guatemalan guerrilla fighter Everado and his American wife Jennifer Harbury, Nobel Peace laureate Rigoberta Mench, deposed Honduran President Manuel 'Mel' Zelaya and murdered Lenca environmentalist Berta Cceres.

At once a group portrait of these geniuses of creative escape,Flightsis 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.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
OR Books
Country
United States
Date
1 October 2024
Pages
388
ISBN
9781682194317

Told through the lives of the American Century's most talented and stubborn dissidents,Flightsis 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 Garca Mrquez, George & Mary Oppen, Frances Stonor Saunders, Malcolm X, Octavio Paz, Diego Rivera, Angela Davis, Leonard Peltier, N. Scott Momaday, Miguel ngel Asturias, Guatemalan guerrilla fighter Everado and his American wife Jennifer Harbury, Nobel Peace laureate Rigoberta Mench, deposed Honduran President Manuel 'Mel' Zelaya and murdered Lenca environmentalist Berta Cceres.

At once a group portrait of these geniuses of creative escape,Flightsis 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.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
OR Books
Country
United States
Date
1 October 2024
Pages
388
ISBN
9781682194317