{"product_id":"call-them-by-their-true-names-american-crises-and-essays-paperback","title":"Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays) - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRebecca Solnit\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNational Book Award Longlist\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Foreword INDIE Editor's Choice Prize for Nonfiction\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Rebecca Solnit is essential feminist reading.\" --\u003cem\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Solnit's exquisite essays move between the political and the personal, the intellectual and the earthy.\" --\u003cem\u003eElle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books, including the international bestseller \u003cem\u003eMen Explain Things to Me\u003c\/em\u003e. Called \"the voice of the resistance\" by the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, she has emerged as an essential guide to our times, through her incisive commentary on feminism, violence, ecology, hope, and everything in between.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In this powerful and wide-ranging collection, Solnit turns her attention to battles over meaning, place, language, and belonging at the heart of the defining crises of our time. She explores the way emotions shape political life, electoral politics, police shootings and gentrification, the life of an extraordinary man on death row, the pipeline protest at Standing Rock, and the existential threat posed by climate change.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The work of changing the world sometimes requires changing the story, the names, and inventing or popularizing new names and terms and phrases. Calling things by their true names can also cut through the lies that excuse, disguise, avoid, or encourage inaction, indifference, obliviousness in the face of injustice and violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWriter, 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 and the books \u003cem\u003eThe Mother of All Questions\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHope in the Dark\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMen Explain Things to Me\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eThe Faraway Nearby\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eA Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eA Field Guide to Getting Lost\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eWanderlust: A History of Walking\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003eRiver of Shadows, Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West\u003c\/em\u003e (for which she received a Guggenheim, the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award). A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school, she is a columnist at \u003cem\u003eHarper's\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 166\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7.4 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 04, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Kirkus Prize (2018)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51984081060141,"sku":"9781608469468","price":17.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/L2ExeXFtTFF1dUliNXR4Q3NOaE1sQT09.webp?v=1776081809","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/call-them-by-their-true-names-american-crises-and-essays-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}