Reviews of books by author Dee Knight
US sanctions on more than 40 countries are a “wrecking ball.” But they’re also a boomerang that is devastating Europe, and rapidly surging into the lives of people at home. High prices for gasoline, food and other necessities are the tip of an iceberg, or the headwinds of a hurricane. Much worse is headed our way. We need this book to understand what’s coming and get ready. We need the explanations and background, to really understand what’s happening, and we need the “Sanctions Kill Toolkit.”
Robin DG Kelley, the noted African American history professor, came to Harlem in September to share insights from Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination. I was inspired to review this new 20th anniversary edition: click here to see it. It’s a tour de force, a...
Two friends I’ve never met in person but feel I’ve known for decades, wrote of their own experiences of resistance, and how they found them reflected in My Whirlwind Lives. “The Wages of Exile: American War Resisters in Canada,” by Rick Ayers, appeared in Hollywood...
This political journey would go from marching to exile; from exile to organizing resistance to the draft to organizing draft resisters in Canada and Europe… a personal testimony from a human who has dedicated his life to a more just world.
A political history of the last six decades and a program worth discussing for staying in motion through today’s storms
By Richard Lemm Dee Knight’s “political memoir and manifesto” My Whirlwind Lives, with a central focus on the long struggle to win universal amnesty for Vietnam era draft dodgers and military deserters, has several outstanding virtues. First, it is a valuable history...
Once the Vietnam War ended, radicalized Knight did not return home to pursue a stereotypical American Dream.
“My Whirlwind Lives” by Dee Knight, published by Guernica Editions, reviewed by Buff Whitman-Bradley at veteransforpeace.org.
Book review of My Whirlwind Lives: A Chronicle of Decades of Resistance and Struggle. By the staff of Fight Back! News