Author: Ernest Belfort Bax
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: essays, outspoken
Number of Pages: 186
Published: 2009-06-04
List price: $21.75
ISBN-10: 1110887302
ISBN-13: 9781110887309
Author: Ernest Belfort Bax
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: essays, outspoken
Number of Pages: 186
Published: 2009-06-04
List price: $26.99
ISBN-10: 1110887329
ISBN-13: 9781110887323
Author: William Ralph Inge
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: essays, outspoken
Number of Pages: 292
Published: 2009-10-29
List price: $28.99
ISBN-10: 111534997X
ISBN-13: 9781115349970
Author: William Ralph Inge
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: essays, outspoken
Number of Pages: 292
Published: 2009-10-29
List price: $25.99
ISBN-10: 1115349961
ISBN-13: 9781115349963
Author: Nan Levinson
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: stories, speech, free, outspoken
Number of Pages: 374
Published: 2006-09-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0520249976
ISBN-13: 9780520249974
With the government granting itself sweeping new surveillance powers, castigating its critics as unpatriotic, and equating differing opinions with abetting "America’s enemies," free speech seems an early casualty of the war on terrorism. But as this book brilliantly demonstrates, to sacrifice our freedom of speech is to surrender the very heart and soul of America. Nan Levinson tells the stories of twenty people who refused to let anyone whittle away at their right to speak, think, create, or demur as they pleased. Among these sometimes unlikely defenders of the cause of free speech are
Author: Gary Phillips
Publisher: PM Press
Keywords: authors, outspoken, underbelly
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2010-09-01
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 1604862068
ISBN-13: 9781604862065
Providing insight on homelessness, political corruption, and the potential effects of gentrification, this urban noir tells the tough story of Magrady, a semi-homeless Vietnam veteran in Los Angeles. As he searches for a friend who has gone missing from Skid Row and who may be involved in a dangerous scheme, Magrady must deal with take-no-prisoners community organizers, an unflinching cop from his past, frequent flashbacks of war, an elderly sexpot, the drug culture, and the perils of chili cheese fries at midnight. A rollicking interview with the author wherein he discusses ghetto literature,
Author: Kim Stanley Robinson
Publisher: PM Press
Keywords: authors, outspoken, strike, lucky
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2009-10-01
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 1604860855
ISBN-13: 9781604860856
Combining dazzling speculation with a profoundly humanist vision, this astounding alternate history tale presents a dramatic encounter with destiny wrapped around a simple yet provocative premise: the terrifying question of what might have happened if the fateful flight over Hiroshima had gone a bit differently. An extensive interview with the author, offering insight into his fiction and philosophies, is also included.
