Resistance (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Jeff Biggers | knygos.lt

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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.

Legendary historian Studs Terkel praised Biggers’s The United States of Appalachia, now in its eighth printing, as a "how-to book" in the tradition of the American Revolution. With Resistance, Biggers opens a new window into American history and its meaning today. As an intimate people’s history, Resistance is a provocative reconsideration of the American Revolution and its unfolding promises, bringing alive early Native American, African American, and immigrant struggles, women’s rights, and pioneering environmental justice movements. Biggers shows our republic of resistance has served our history, especially in times when our nation—and its leaders—need to be held accountable.