Please Don't Bomb the Suburbs: A Midterm Report on My Generation and the Future of Our Super Movement - Couverture souple

Wimsatt, William Upski

 
9781936070596: Please Don't Bomb the Suburbs: A Midterm Report on My Generation and the Future of Our Super Movement

Synopsis

"[A] sober and funny assessment of where activism is and where it needs to go." --In These Times

"Wimsatt's level of sincerity and enthusiasm is refreshing and bracing, and the book stands as a reminder that anybody who wants to help improve the world can find plenty of ways to get busy, and also have a great time doing it." --Literary Kicks

As a potty-mouth graffiti writer from the Southside of Chicago, William "Upski" Wimsatt electrified the literary and hip-hop world with two of the most successful underground classic books in a generation, Bomb the Suburbs (1994) and No More Prisons (1999), which sold more than 90,000 copies combined.

In Please Don't Bomb the Suburbs, Wimsatt weaves a first-person tour of America's cultural and political movements from 1985-2010. It's a story about love, growing up, a generation coming of age, and a vision for the movement young people will create in the new decade. With humor, storytelling, and historical insight, Wimsatt lays out a provocative vision for the next twenty-five years of personal and historical transformation. Never heard of Billy Wimsatt before? Your life just got better.

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À propos de l?auteur

WILLIAM UPSKI WIMSATT is the author of Bomb the Suburbs and No More Prisons (more than 90,000 combined sales). A maverick graffiti artist, journalist, political and philanthropic organizer, Wimsatt has appeared in hundreds of publications and is a popular speaker at colleges and conferences. He founded the League of Young Voters, worked for Barack Obama in Ohio, and co-organized the first ever briefing of social justice artists with the White House. He was honored as a "Visionary" by Utne Reader, and included in The Source's "Power 30" list. Please Don't Bomb the Suburbs is his latest book.

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