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    Call Them By Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays)
    Call Them By Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays)
    Call Them By Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays)
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    Call Them By Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays)

    Written 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, "with 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 "to 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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateSep 4, 2018
    ISBN9781977383327
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    Rebecca Solnit

    Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books on feminism, western and indigenous history, popular power, social change and insurrection, hope and disaster, including A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster (Penguin, 2010) and Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities (Haymarket, 2016).

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    • 4/5
      For a collection of topical essays this book served me as a reminder of how we got to the disarray of politics and the divide in our society. More than that, Solnit analyzes and resists our tendency to live with lies and euphemisms rather than face hard facts. It heartens me to know that some commentators are not simply rambling on about our problems but actually addressing them.
    • 4/5
      These essays are about hope, but hope as a verb. Hope as something you do, you act on. Whether it works or not, you keep doing hope.
    • 4/5
      Ms Solnit is brilliant, as always, but she isn't always edited well by her publisher who, in her 4th essay collection for Hey Day books has once again, put her work in kind of a jumbled nonsense of a pile. If you can stand that these essays seem thrown about like yesterday's laundry, you'll be fine. On their own, they are magical, particularly "Preaching to the Choir"
    • 4/5
      I've read a lot of Solnit's work, and I particularly like the essays in this collection.
    • 5/5
      I always love [[Rebecca Solnit]]'s essays, and this collection was particularly good. The uniting focus is that words and labels matter and that small actions can add up to big change. Though times are dark, this collection is surprisingly hopeful. The essays sparked my anger but also made me proud of the way many in our country are standing up and making their dissatisfaction public. I bought a bunch of Solnit's collected essays and I think I'll pick up another right away. Solnit's writing is always points out the uncomfortable and always challenges me to reassess my biases. Plus her skill in the use of the English language is remarkable.