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Democracy Now!: Twenty Years Covering the Movements Changing America Audiobook
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A celebration of the acclaimed news program Democracy Now! and the extraordinary heroes who have moved our democracy forward.
This book looks back over the past twenty years of Democracy Now! and considers that, as the courts and government abdicate their responsibilities, it has fallen to ordinary people to hold the powerful to account. Amy Goodman gives voice to these leaderful—not leaderless—movements: the countless charismatic leaders who are taking to the streets in Ferguson, Staten Island, Wall Street, and other places where people are rising up to demand justice.
This is the guiding principle of Democracy Now!, which is front and center in this powerful, important work.
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“If you’re of the opinion that the big events and pivotal moments we’ve been seeing over the last decade or two is overblown or easily dismissed, read this book and see how the salient details of the American political and cultural landscape have unfolded in the Internet age. Likely Democracy Now! was covering it. This work will inform and enlighten you.”
— Pittsburgh Post Gazette
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“A sweeping look at both the origins of the show and its unique role in American political life. It’s also a scathing critique of corporate media and its corrosive culture.”
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“Presents the voices of people prevented from earning livable wages, fired for organizing for labor rights, incarcerated unjustly, bombed illegally, discriminated against, foreclosed on, spied upon, disenfranchised, and deported. They call us to the better angels of our democracy.”
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“A twenty-year chronicle of a radio, TV, and Internet broadcast program whose mission has been to expose, defy, and edify…an important source of news and analysis…From Clinton to the current presidential campaign, no politician escapes the authors’ critique…An impassioned book aiming to fuel informed participation, outrage, and dissent.”
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“Goodman uses her radio experience to provide listeners with a memorable audio experience. Her voice is somewhat thin, but it urges us to listen to it. She presents information clearly and simply, allowing the words and stories to take precedence over her performance but not letting us forget that she’s guiding us through material she believes we need to hear.”
— AudioFile
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About Amy Goodman
Amy Goodman is the host and executive producer of Democracy Now! An acclaimed international journalist, she has won the Right Livelihood Award, widely known as the Alternative Nobel Prize; a lifetime achievement award from Harvard’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism; the George Polk Award; Robert F. Kennedy Prize for International Reporting; and the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award. She is the coauthor with Denis Moynihan of the New York Times bestseller The Silenced Majority, as well as other books. She is a syndicated columnist for King Features.