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Wednesday 10 January 2018

This combination photo shows book cover images for, from left, “Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World,” by Women’s March
Organizers and Conde Nast, “When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir” by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele, “How Democracies Die,”
written by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt and “The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America,” written by Timothy Snyder.

Associated Press

Dozens more ‘resistance’ books scheduled for 2018

By HILLEL ITALIE “I asked that contributors American politics are im- Labeling a “resistance” former Obama administra-
AP National Writer write stories and fiction be- mune from fatal damage. book can be as challeng- tion official Cass R. Sunstein
NEW YORK (AP) — At The cause I didn’t want more Amy Siskind’s “The List” ing as defining the resis- has edited “Can It Happen
Booksmith in San Francis- political rhetoric,” says compiles her widely read tance movement. Disdain Here: Authoritarianism in
co, they’re trying to keep the book’s editor, Jona- online annal of breaks from for the president is the uni- America,” essays by a di-
up with all the anti-Trump than Santlofer. “I wanted democratic tradition dur- fier for authors who might verse range of scholars on
releases and other works of to do something people ing 2017. Timothy Snyder otherwise have little to say American democracy. The
the “resistance.” would enjoy reading and is following his best-sell- to each other, from Black book was clearly inspired
“It’s staggering, the num- holding and looking at. A ing “On Tyranny,” a brief Lives Matter co-found- by Trump, but Sunstein said
ber of books,” says store story is something that can handbook about signs of er Patrisse Khan-Cullors, he doesn’t consider it a
manager and leader buy- convey feeling and even authoritarianism, with “The whose memoir “When work of “resistance.” He
er Camden Avery. “Politics a message without being Road to Unfreedom: Rus- They Call You a Terrorist” calls it an “exploration of
has a much more promi- more polemic.” sia, Europe, America.” Sny- is due this month, to Frum, self-government” touching
nent place in our store This month marks not just der is a history professor at a former George W. Bush upon currents events and
and for our customers than the 1-year anniversary of Yale University and his new speechwriter; to author- such historical moments
we’ve had for a long time.” Trump’s presidency, but book looks at threats to journalist Sarah Kendzior, as the internment of Japa-
The rise of Donald Trump also of the massive wom- democracy in the U.S. and a prominent commentator nese during World War II.
has been mirrored by an en’s marches staged the overseas. on authoritarianism whose Trump opponents have
expanding literary genre day after his inauguration. “For me at least the point 2015 e-book “The View been enjoying “Fire and
that will intensify in 2018, “Together We Rise: Behind of ‘On Tyranny’ was to get from Flyover Country” is Fury,” Michael Wolff’s ex-
with dozens of new works the Scenes at the Protest ahead: knowing what we being reissued this spring in plosive tell-all about the ad-
expected, on top of the Heard Around the World” know of the past, we have paperback. ministration that became
dozens from last year. includes essays by Rox- to act quickly in the pres- “I think a diverse resistance an immediate best-seller.
Books of “resistance” will ane Gay, Ashley Judd and ent,” Snyder wrote in a is a positive force,” Kendzi- But booksellers hesitate to
include guides to activism, America Ferrera. “Keep recent email. “In the next or wrote in a recent email. put it in the “resistance”
reflections on democracy, Marching: How Every book, I try to show us our “Everyone has different in- category. At Unabridged
investigations of Russian Woman Can Take Action own moment in history, so sights on how the situation Books in Chicago, owner
interference in last year’s and Change Our World,” that we see what we trea- happened and how inhu- Ed Devereux says that the
election and legal analysis, by activist and Women’s sure by observing how it mane and unconstitutional book has been placed in
along with poetry and fic- March speaker Kristin is attacked. The point of policies can be stopped. a more traditional setting,
tion. Rowe-Finkbeiner, features ‘Road to Unfreedom’ is This doesn’t mean we have new nonfiction.
Trump’s election revived “proven tactics, policy so- responsibility: as we act to agree about everything “I don’t think you’re going
interest in such classic Dys- lutions and strategies any to preserve threatened — I’m sure we don’t — but to read that book to learn
topian novels as “1984” woman can use to build political virtues, we make we can agree we do not how to resist, or think of
and “The Handmaid’s her power.” ourselves into the kinds of want an American autoc- ways to deal with the po-
Tale,” and an upcoming Several new works will ad- citizens who can make a racy.” litical system,” he said. “It’s
compilation, “It Occurs dress challenges to our better future.” Harvard law professor and just a best-seller.”q
to Me That I Am America: system of government.
New Stories and Art,” also “How Democracies Die,”
uses narrative as a form of by Harvard professors Ste-
social consciousness. The ven Levitsky and Daniel
book, which will help sup- Ziblatt, traces the demise
port the American Civil Lib- of political rights in coun-
erties Union, includes origi- tries around the world. Da-
nal material by such popu- vid Frum’s “Trumpocracy”
lar authors as Neil Gaiman warns against the “com-
and Mary Higgins Clark. placent optimism” that