(Ebook) Call Them By Their True Names by Rebecca Solnit ISBN 9781608469468, 1608469468, B07C5W7KDC

(Ebook) Call Them By Their True Names by Rebecca Solnit ISBN 9781608469468, 1608469468, B07C5W7KDC

Called “the voice of the resistance” by The New York Times, Rebecca Solnit has emerged as an essential guide to our times, through incisive commentary on feminism, violence, ecology, hope, and everything in between.“Rebecca Solnit is the voice of the resistance.”  -  New York Times MagazineIn 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."No writer has better understood the mix of fear and possibility, peril and exuberance that's marked this new millennium."  -  Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org“Solnit is careful with her words (she always is) but never so much that she mutes the infuriated spirit that drives these essays.”  -  Kirkus ReviewsRebecca Solnit:  Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of twenty books on feminism, western and indigenous history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and disaster, including a trilogy of atlases. A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school, she is a columnist at Harper’s.