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STAKES IS HIGH
Life after the American Dream
Bold vision for how to move past crisis mode and build a country that lives up to its promise: of liberty, justice, and equality.
"We are better than this" has been the rallying cry since Donald Trump was elected. But as New York Times-bestselling author Mychal Denzel Smith shows, Americans are too comfortable imagining their greatness. But historically, we've only come close to living up to the ideals we profess after we've been dragged, kicking and screaming, toward justice. Growth only happens when we confront our deceptions and our own complicity in them.
In STAKES IS HIGH, Smith exposes the contradictions at the heart of American life - between patriotism and justice, between freedom and inequality, and incarceration and police violence. In a series of incisive essays, Smith holds us to account individually and as a nation. He examines his own shortcomings, grapples with the anxiety of feeling stuck, and looks in new directions for the tools to build a just America. He questions whether Martin Luther King, Jr. can ever really be the hero we need in our time, untangles the persistent cultural power of Bill Cosby, and weighs the value of police and prison abolition.
STAKES IS HIGH establishes Mychal Denzel Smith as a voice to be heeded as we prepare for the fight ahead.
Mychal Denzel Smith is the author of the New York Times bestseller Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching, and a fellow at the Nation Institute. He has written for the New York Times, The Atlantic, Complex, The Paris Review, Harper's, The New Republic, The Guardian, and The Root, and he has been a featured commentator on NPR, BBC radio, CNN, MSNBC, and HuffPost Live. He lives in Brooklyn.
In STAKES IS HIGH, Smith exposes the contradictions at the heart of American life - between patriotism and justice, between freedom and inequality, and incarceration and police violence. In a series of incisive essays, Smith holds us to account individually and as a nation. He examines his own shortcomings, grapples with the anxiety of feeling stuck, and looks in new directions for the tools to build a just America. He questions whether Martin Luther King, Jr. can ever really be the hero we need in our time, untangles the persistent cultural power of Bill Cosby, and weighs the value of police and prison abolition.
STAKES IS HIGH establishes Mychal Denzel Smith as a voice to be heeded as we prepare for the fight ahead.
Mychal Denzel Smith is the author of the New York Times bestseller Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching, and a fellow at the Nation Institute. He has written for the New York Times, The Atlantic, Complex, The Paris Review, Harper's, The New Republic, The Guardian, and The Root, and he has been a featured commentator on NPR, BBC radio, CNN, MSNBC, and HuffPost Live. He lives in Brooklyn.
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Published 2020-09-08 by Bold Type Books |