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Name: Call Them by Their True Names

Full name: Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays)

Author: Rebecca Solnit
Year: 2018
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Non Fiction, Essays, Feminism, Politics

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ISBNs:
9781608469468
1608469468

Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books including the international bestseller Men Explain Things to Me. Called "the voice of the resistance" by the New York Times, she has emerged as an essential guide to our times, through incisive commentary on feminism, violence, ecology, hope, and everything in between.

In this powerful and wide-ranging collection of essays, 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.

This book is part of the "Essays" series. Here are some other books from this series:

"Hope In The Dark"
First published in 2004
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"Men Explain Things to Me"
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