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Call Them By Their True Names

American Crises (and Essays)

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Call Them By Their True Names

By: Rebecca Solnit
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
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In this powerful and wide-ranging collection of essays, Rebecca Solnit turns her attention to the war at home. This is a war, she says, "[W]ith so many casualties that we should call it by its true name, this war with so many dead by police, by violent ex-husbands and partners and lovers, by people pursuing power and profit at the point of a gun or just shooting first and figuring out who they hit later."

To get to the root of these American crises, she contends that "[T]o acknowledge this state of war is to admit the need for peace", countering the despair of our age with a dose of solidarity, creativity, and hope.

©2018 Rebecca Solnit (P)2018 Tantor Anthropology Essays Gender Studies Social Sciences Violence in Society Nonfiction
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I must say I had avoided Rebecca’s books based on review comments I had read about her being a bit discursive. Nothing of the kind here. She writes with tremendous vision, incisiveness and urgency and is a real discovery. I will explore her other books, starting with Orwell’s Roses.

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This is an insightful, eloquent and inspiring collection of essays - Solnit is one of the greats!

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