{"product_id":"flights-radicals-on-the-run-paperback","title":"Flights: Radicals on the Run - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoel Whitney\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTold through the lives of the American Century's most talented and stubborn dissidents, \u003cem\u003eFlights\u003c\/em\u003e is the archetypal hero's journey of a group of progressives whose struggle for truth, and for freedom from persecution, sent them into exile, both literal and metaphorical.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWanted for a crime she did not commit, Professor Angela Davis went on the run in 1970, describing the struggle against panic in her nightly safehouse transfers: \"Living as a fugitive means resisting hysteria, distinguishing between the creations of a frightened imagination and the real signs that the enemy is near.\" In her quest \"to elude him, outsmart him,\" she recalled, \"Thousands of my ancestors had waited, as I had...for nightfall to cover their steps...\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavis is just one of a rich array of refugees portrayed here by Joel Whitney, all forced to flee homes and\/or friends because of their progressive stance. In these pages are compelling profiles of Seymour Hersh, Lorraine Hansberry, Graham Greene, Paul Robeson, Gabriel García Márquez, George \u0026amp; Mary Oppen, Frances Stonor Saunders, Malcolm X, Octavio Paz, Diego Rivera, Angela Davis, Leonard Peltier, N. Scott Momaday, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan guerrilla fighter Everado and his American wife Jennifer Harbury, Nobel Peace laureate Rigoberta Menchú, deposed Honduran President Manuel \"Mel\" Zelaya and murdered Lenca environmentalist Berta Cáceres.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt once a group portrait of these geniuses of creative escape, \u003cem\u003eFlights\u003c\/em\u003e is also a prehistory (and indictment) of American mass surveillance, culminating in Edward Snowden's revelations, of torture, culminating in Abu Ghraib, of censorship, culminating in the incarceration of journalist Julian Assange, of fascism, culminating in January 6, and of political murder, culminating in the Bush-Obama-Trump air assassination program.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJoel Whitney\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003eFinks: How the CIA Tricked the World's Best Writers\u003c\/em\u003e, which The \u003cem\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/em\u003e called a \"powerful warning.\" His writing has appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Daily Beast\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Baffler\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNew York Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, and elsewhere. He is a former features editor at \u003cem\u003eAl Jazeera America\u003c\/em\u003e and a founder and former editor-in-chief of \u003cem\u003eGuernica\u003c\/em\u003e, for which he was awarded the 2017 PEN\/Nora Magid Award for Excellence in Editing. His essays in \u003cem\u003eThe Baffler, Dissent\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSalon \u003c\/em\u003ewere Notables in Best American Essays 2017, 2015 and 2013. \u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 388\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.87 x 8.25 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 21, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42153258516615,"sku":"9781682194317","price":24.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/e441f7a6c04731f4c9c945ad555b1542.webp?v=1733220227","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/flights-radicals-on-the-run-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}