A People's Power - Couverture souple

Bonjean, Hugo

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0973754230 ISBN 13 : 9780973754230

Editeur : Eagle Vision Publishing, 2026

Synopsis

MY FATHER WAS A GOOD MAN.

You know it already: money does not work the way we were told, the news is not the whole story, the farmer does not have the choice to focus on healthy food, and behind the systems that are ruling us sit people who don’t want us to question. Anything. This is the story of a man who loved life, did question, did not comply — and of what it cost him and the message he left.

So begins the testimony of a daughter searching for the truth about her father, David Green — a family farmer the markets called a threat and the media branded an ecoterrorist, but to most he offered hope.

Told through the voices of those who knew him — his mother, his pastor, a childhood friend turned banker, indigenous elders, corporate insiders, the powerful men who watched him and the ordinary people who marched beside him — the story travels from a Canadian family farm to the American South, to El Salvador at the time of Archbishop Romero’s assassination, and back north across America, tracing David’s awakening to the hidden architecture of our world: how farming works, how money is actually created, who profits from it, and why the systems that rule us are built never to be questioned. His answer is a movement unlike any in history — four simple pillars, no weapons, only love, forgiveness, and the refusal to comply.

Power, of course, fights back. And the collision between a peaceful people’s movement and the structures that own the world builds to an ending readers never forget — a testament to the strength of the human spirit.

“A riveting novel! I was on the edge of my seat till the very end… It will challenge every belief you have.”

— Maude Barlow, chair, Council of Canadians

“This is not a story to sample or skim. It must be lived page by page, from beginning to end. I do not recall any book that so moved me.”

— David Korten, board chair, YES! Magazine

From the Canadian bestselling author of In the Eyes of Anahita — written by a man who watched power from the inside. As a Fortune 500 hotel executive, Hugo Bonjean did business with some of the wealthiest people on earth before getting to know the poorest in the slums. After a near-death experience he walked away and returned to live off the land and walk among the kind of people this story honors. A People’s Power is endorsed by Percy Schmeiser — the Saskatchewan family farmer who stood up to Monsanto and became the David of David versus Monsanto — and it is the book that made Bonjean’s New York editor cry, only the second manuscript in her career to do so.

For readers of Ishmael, The Overstory, and The Ministry for the Future — and for everyone Barbara Kingsolver taught to root for the people the system forgot— for everyone who suspects the world doesn’t work the way we were told, and for everyone who still believes there is a peaceful way to change it.

Was David Green a good man? You decide.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Eagle Vision Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0973754230
• ISBN 13: 9780973754230
• Reliure: Broché
• Illustrateur: Oel Suzanne
• Nombre de pages: 321
• Éditeur: Zack Elizabeth
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible