Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means – $295
by rgonzalezr
Twenty-three years in the making, Rising Up and Rising Down is a rich amalgam of historical analysis, contemporary case studies, anecdotes, essays, theory, charts, graphs, photographs and drawings. Convinced that there is “a finite number of excuses” for violence and that some excuses “are more valid than others,” Vollmann spent two decades consulting hundreds of sources, scrutinizing the thinking of philosophers, theologians, tyrants, warlords, military strategists, activists and pacifists. He also visited more than a dozen countries and war zones to witness […]
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