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"Resist we must, resist we will -- and as this volume powerfully reminds us, in so doing we are acting on the deepest American instincts." -- Bill McKibben, author of Radio Free Vermont: A Fable of Resistance 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 an inspiring narrative history, Jeff Biggers reframes today's battles as a continuum of a vibrant American tradition. Resistance chronicles the arduous, courageous, and often squabbling resistance movements that insured the benchmarks of our democracy -- movements 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 various civil rights struggles.
About the Author
Jeff Biggers is an award-winning historian, journalist and playwright. He is the author of the forthcoming Resistance: Reclaiming an American Tradition, Trials of a Scold: The Incredible True Story of Writer Anne Royall, longlisted for he PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography, State Out of the Union: Arizona and the Final Showdown Over the American Dream, selected as a Top Ten Book in Social Sciences by Publishers Weekly, Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland, winner of the Delta Award for Literature and the David Brower Award for Environmental Reporting, The United States of Appalachia, and In the Sierra Madre, recipient of the ForeWord Magazine Travel Book of the Year Award. His work has appeared in numerous magazines, newspapers and national public radio programs, including NPR, PRI, the New York Times, The Atlantic, Huffington Post, Salon, The Nation and The Guardian. His website is www.jeffbiggers.com .
