Overview
Across cities, towns, and campuses, Americans are grappling with overwhelming challenges and the daily fallout from the most authoritarian White House policies in recent memory.
In this inspiring narrative history, Jeff Biggers reframes todayās battles as a continuum of a vibrant American tradition. Resistance is a chronicle of the courageous resistance movements that have insured the benchmarks of our democracyāāmovements that served on the front lines of the American Revolution, the defense of the Constitution and Bill of Rights, the defeat of fascism during World War II, and landmark civil rights and environmental protection achievements.
Legendary historian Studs Terkel praised Biggersās The United States of Appalachia as a "howāto book" in the tradition of the American Revolution. With Resistance, Biggers opens a new window into American history and its meaning today. In a recovery of unsung heroes, including Revolutionary forefather Thomas Paine, Resistance is a provocative reconsideration of the American Revolution, bringing alive the early struggles of Indigenous peoples and people of color, and immigration, womenās rights, and environmental justice movements. With lucidity, meticulousness, and wit, Biggers unfolds one of our countryās bestākept secrets: in dealing with the most challenging issues of every generation, resistance to duplicitous civil authority has defined our quintessential American story.
"Resist we must, resist we willāāand as this volume powerfully reminds us, in so doing we are acting on the deepest American instincts." āBill McKibben, author of Radio Free Vermont: A Fable of Resistance
This book title, Resistance (Reclaiming an American Tradition), ISBN: 9781640092464, by Jeff Biggers, published by Catapult (August 6, 2019) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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