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Flights

Radicals on the Run

Author: Joel Whitney  

Flights
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  • The author is a former features editor at Al Jazeera America and a founder/former editor-in-chief of Guernica, for which he won a 2017 PEN/Nora Magid Award for Excellence In Editing. His essays have been published in Best American Essays 2017, Best American Essays 2015, and Best American Essays 2013. Use these awards to leverage further coverage around this title.
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  • Leverage relationships and reviews established with the author’s last publication with us, which include Kirkus Reviews, James Risen, David Talbot, Poetry Foundation, and more.
  • Pitch op-eds, excerpts, and reviews to The New York Times, The Daily Beast, The Baffler, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Boston Review, Salon, The Sun Magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, World Policy Journal, The New Republic, Dissent, New York Magazine, The Poetry Foundation, The Wire (India), Jacobin, The Village Voice, and more.
  • The author is a former features editor at Al Jazeera America and a founder/former editor-in-chief of Guernica, for which he won a 2017 PEN/Nora Magid Award for Excellence In Editing. His essays have been published in Best American Essays 2017, Best American Essays 2015, and Best American Essays 2013. Use these awards to leverage further coverage around this title.
  • Pitch television, radio, and podcast interviews on Scheer Intelligence, KPFA/Jacobin Radio, Radio War Nerd, KPFA Berkeley, and more.

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Description

Told through the lives of the American Century's most talented and stubborn dissidents,Flightsis 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.

Wanted 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...'

Davis 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 Garca Mrquez, George & Mary Oppen, Frances Stonor Saunders, Malcolm X, Octavio Paz, Diego Rivera, Angela Davis, Leonard Peltier, N. Scott Momaday, Miguel ngel Asturias, Guatemalan guerrilla fighter Everado and his American wife Jennifer Harbury, Nobel Peace laureate Rigoberta Mench, deposed Honduran President Manuel 'Mel' Zelaya and murdered Lenca environmentalist Berta Cceres.

At once a group portrait of these geniuses of creative escape,Flightsis 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.

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Critic Reviews

“An absolutely overwhelming, magisterial tour-de-force.”
—Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“Mind-bending . . . so profound and original it defies a brief endorsement.”
—Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of An Indigenous People's History of the United States

"Marvelous vignettes [that] shed new light on intriguing lives."
—Gerald Horne, author of The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance & the Origins of the USA

"Fine-grained and deeply engaging."
—Astra Taylor, author of Democracy May Not Exist, but We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone

"Necessary, compelling and often shocking."
—Francine Prose, author of The Vixen

"[Flights] is a wonderfully written text about a truly remarkable if also painfully elusive subject: artists and others on the run from Cold War capitalism."
—CounterPunch

"Whitney has provided an important insight into the way in which the US state has sought to influence the cultural agenda, shape the political landscape and sanitise the way in which the world views the United States."
—Liberation

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About the Author

Joel Whitneyis the author ofFinks: How the CIA Tricked the World's Best Writers, which TheNew Republiccalled a 'powerful warning'. Hiswritinghas appeared inThe New York Times,The Daily Beast,The Baffler,The Wall Street Journal,Boston Review,New York Magazine,and elsewhere. He is a former features editor atAl Jazeera Americaand a founder and former editor-in-chief ofGuernica, for which he was awarded the2017 PEN/Nora Magid Award for Excellence in Editing.His essays inThe Baffler, DissentandSalonwere Notables inBest American Essays 2017,2015 and2013.

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Product Details

Publisher
OR Books
Published
4th July 2024
Pages
388
ISBN
9781682194317

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