My Whirlwind Lives
Navigating Decades of Storms
A Political Memoir & Manifesto by Dee Knight
from Solidarity Publications, July 2023
Our recent storms didn’t start in 2020 or 2016. They started decades ago in the 1960s – a whirlwind of threatened nuclear catastrophe, then police dogs and rednecks terrorizing civil rights marchers down south, then Vietnamese children fleeing from napalm flames.Then draft notices to go to Vietnam to “fight commies.” A small town boy started by supporting rightist Goldwater against the“peace candidate” Johnson, but rapidly changed in the face of the civil rights and anti-war movements, and started a quest that hasn’t ended yet.
Excerpts, reviews, & news
My Whirlwind Lives: Navigating Decades of Storms
A Political Memoir & Manifesto by Dee Knight
A Life Spent Swimming Against the Tide
Once the Vietnam War ended, radicalized Knight did not return home to pursue a stereotypical American Dream.
Reviewed by Buff Whitman-Bradley at Veterans For Peace
"My Whirlwind Lives" by Dee Knight, published by Guernica Editions, reviewed by Buff Whitman-Bradley at veteransforpeace.org.
A Chronicle of Decades of Resistance and Struggle
Book review of My Whirlwind Lives: A Chronicle of Decades of Resistance and Struggle. By the staff of Fight Back! News
Dee Knight Presents at Chicago’s College of Complexes
Presentation of "My Whirlwind Lives" author Dee Knight at Chicago’s College of Complexes gave Saturday, March 19, 2022.
My Whirlwind Lives now available to order online!
"My Whirlwind Lives: Navigating Decades of Storms," is now available at The People's Forum's 1804 Books in NYC, and online at 1804books.com
Author Bio
An editor of Amex-Canada, (The American Exile/Expatriate in Canada) from 1968 to 1974, Dee Knight helped organize the National Council for Universal Unconditional Amnesty from 1973 to ’77. In 1975 Knight witnessed Portugal’s “Carnation Revolution” for People’s Power. In the 1980s Knight lived in Nicaragua, working with the Sandinista newspaper Barricada. During the 1990s, he was a publishing consultant for the United Nations Development Programme in New York. During the buildup to the U.S. invasion of Iraq in the early 2000s, Knight was part of national organizing efforts to oppose that war, resulting in protest actions of millions of people in the United States. He is the author of A Realistic Path To Peace: How to Stop the New Cold War and Prevent Nuclear Disaster.
PUB. DATE: July 5, 2023
SIZE: 9 x 6 / PAGES: 214
PRICE: $12 paperback; $2.99 ebook https://www.amazon.com/My-Whirlwind-Lives-Navigating-Decades/dp/B0C9S543Z1/ref=sr_1_4?crid=146JAVT2VQAB9&keywords=My+Whirlwind+Lives&qid=1689091202&sprefix=my+whirlwind+lives%2Caps%2C125&sr=8-4
ISBN: 979-8988349136 paperback
9798988349143 ebook
Solidarity Publications
Marketing and Publicity:
Dee Knight
deeknight816@gmail.com