My country 'tis of thee : reporting, sallies, and other confessions / David Harris.
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- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781597145152
- 1597145157
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Main Library | NonFiction | 071.3 H313 | Available | 33111010514764 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A multifaceted career-spanning collection from famed activist and journalist David Harris
David Harris is a reporter, a clear-eyed idealist, an American dissident, and, as these selected pieces reveal, a writer of great character and empathy. Harris gained national recognition as an undergraduate for his opposition to the Vietnam War and was imprisoned for two years when he refused to comply with the draft. His writings trace a bright throughline of care for and attention to outsiders, the downtrodden, and those who demand change, and these eighteen pieces of long-form journalism, essays, and opinion writings remain startlingly relevant to the world we face today. This career-spanning collection of writings by an always-independent journalist follow Harris from his early days as a prominent leader of the resistance to the Vietnam War, through regular contributions to many publications, including Rolling Stone and the New York Times , and on into the twenty-first century.
Born in Fresno and elected student body president of Stanford University in 1966, Harris has always had an undeniably Californian point of view--he imagines the future with an open heart and mind and pursues stories out of genuine curiosity, embedding himself among striking farmworkers, marijuana growers, the homeless on LA's skid row, and occasionally, redwood trees. Inspiring, clarifying, and fearless, his abiding and lucid patriotism insists that our country live up to its own ideals.
I picked prison -- Ask a marine -- Our war -- The bloody end -- Behind America's marijuana high -- Busted in Mexico -- The battle of Coachella Valley -- Bitter harvest -- Zone of war -- The vampires of Skid Row -- A child of "the land" -- Michael Murphy and the true home-field advantage -- Nelson Rockefeller: A man of many talents -- What makes David Harris run? -- Will the real Walter Mondale stand up? -- São Paulo: Megacity metamorphosis -- The agony of the Kurds -- My redwood confession.
"Eighteen pieces of journalism, essays, and opinion writing by David Harris, from the early 1970s to the present. Introduced by the author"-- Provided by publisher.