Call Them By Their True Names by Rebecca Solnit audiobook

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

By Rebecca Solnit
Read by Cassandra Campbell

Tantor Audio 9781608463299

Unabridged

Format : Library CD (In Stock)
  • 3 Formats: CD
  • 3 Formats: Library CD
  • 3 Formats: MP3 CD

  • ISBN: 9781665226172

  • ISBN: 9781665226165

  • ISBN: 9781665226189

Runtime: 5.97 Hours
Category: Nonfiction/Essays
Audience: Adult
Language: English
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Summary

Summary

Winner of the 2018 Kirkus Prize

Longlisted for the National Book Award

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.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“Solnit’s exquisite essays move between the political and the personal, the intellectual and the earthy.” —Elle
“A searing and super smart call-to-arms that takes on a range of social and political problems in America…[that] features Solnit’s signature wit, humor, honesty, and incisive commentary, and beneath it all, a focus on progress and hope.” —Poets & Writers
Narrator Cassandra Campbell is unrelenting in her steadiness, and her understated performance offers a perfect counterweight to the challenging themes and ideas. —AudioFile
"[A] fiery clutch of essays…the author doesn’t mind the criticism that liberal pundits like her are preaching to the choir by reasserting principles and history lessons: The choir represents the ‘deeply committed’ who need encouragement. Stoking that support in part demands attacking doublespeak that enables bigotry and unethical behavior from governments…Telling the story wrong, with the wrong words and framing, threatens democracy, she exhorts journalism school graduates in one essay. Her own work is a model of doing it right. —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Solnit [is] a powerful cultural critic: as always, she opts for measured assessment and pragmatism over hype and hysteria.” —Publishers Weekly

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Author

Author Bio: Rebecca Solnit

Author Bio: Rebecca Solnit

Rebecca Solnit, writer, historian, and activist, is the author of more than twenty books on feminism, western and indigenous history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and disaster. Call Them by Their True Names won the 2018 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction. River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West won the Lannan Literary Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school, she is a columnist at the London Guardian and a regular contributor to Literary Hub.

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Available Formats : CD, Library CD, MP3 CD
Category: Nonfiction/Essays
Runtime: 5.97
Audience: Adult
Language: English

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