{"product_id":"on-resistance-isbn-9781685892692","title":"On Resistance","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the writer \u003ci\u003eElle \u003c\/i\u003ecalls the \"most inspiringly wicked social critic of the moment\" comes a hands-on, don't-lose-hope study of how writers, painters, musicians, and other cultural figures respond to fascism …\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom a veteran writer and activist comes a concise yet potent guide to standing up to the myriad tyrannies of our current political landscape. We live in a time where independent thinking, love of literature and ideas, and passion for human expression are all under attack from a ruthless and uncaring government and a culture that values only immediate gratification and digital flash.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eOn Resistance\u003c\/i\u003e, Curtis White offers spiritual hope and intellectual fortification for those in despair about the bankruptcy of American life. Drawing on a range of books, films, essays, and artworks, White shows how our rich collective literary heritage gives us mental ammunition for our fight against the forces that would reduce us all to commodities and consumers. In doing so, he has penned a new classic in the noble history of American polemics.\u003cb\u003eCurtis White\u003c\/b\u003e is a novelist and social critic whose works include \u003ci\u003eMemories of My Father Watching TV, The Middle Mind\u003c\/i\u003e, and, more recently, \u003ci\u003eThe Science Delusion\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWe Robots\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLacking Character\u003c\/i\u003e. His essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eHarpers\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTricycle.\u003c\/i\u003e He taught EnglisH at Illinois State University. He is the founder  (with Ronald Sukenick) of FC2, a publisher of innovative fiction run  collectively by its authors. He lives in Port Townsend, WA.","brand":"Melville House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233448767717,"sku":"NP9781685892692","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781685892692.jpg?v=1773176044","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/on-resistance-isbn-9781685892692","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}