{"product_id":"on-courage-how-to-be-a-dissident-in-an-age-of-fear-9780063491946","title":"On Courage: How to Be a Dissident in an Age of Fear","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"INVALUABLE. A CLASSIC OF OUR TIME. Everybody should read it.\" --RACHEL MADDOW\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA deeply reported manual about how anyone can defy an authoritarian - based on original interviews with more than 100 dissidents, activists, and theorists across the world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe United States is only the latest country to face a leader who wields fear as a weapon, punishes political enemies, disappears people off the street, and undermines free and fair elections. Today nearly three out of four people on earth live under authoritarianism, the highest rate since the late 1970s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut even under repressive conditions, each of us holds the power to help defeat autocrats. Based on their acclaimed \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e essay \"So You Want to Be a Dissident?,\" veteran reporter Julia Angwin and political strategist Ami Fields-Meyer give us a captivating - and profoundly hopeful - guide to courage in an age of fear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeet a student from Hong Kong who risked everything for democracy. A mom in a working-class neighborhood of Caracas who broke with the political movement that raised her. Cairo twentysomethings who staged a gutsy stunt to help bring down a dictator. A mild-mannered immigrant fighting to save a landmark U.S. civil rights law. People throughout the United States and across five continents who faced serious risks for dissenting in their workplace, their community, or their country. \u003ci\u003eOn Courage\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of how they did it anyway - and how you can do it, too.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlending rich, previously untold narratives with history, spirituality, and movement research, Angwin and Fields-Meyer deliver a highly accessible book full of practical lessons - an inspiring resource for anyone, anywhere, who feel the walls of history closing in on them. \u003ci\u003eOn Courage\u003c\/i\u003e is a roadmap to political courage and a powerful case for how taking personal risks can help save the free world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Julia Angwin,Ami Fields-Meyer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Mariner Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/30\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.83lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.73w x 1.11d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780063491946\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAngwin, Julia:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJulia Angwin\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning investigative journalist, a bestselling author, a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e contributing Opinion writer and founding director of the Independent Media + Audience Project at Harvard Kennedy School's Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy. She is the founder of two nonprofit newsrooms - Proof News and The Markup - that investigate the impacts of technology. She is a winner and two time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting. She is the author of the \u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eTimes \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller \u003ci\u003eDragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance\u003c\/i\u003e (Times Books, 2014) and \u003ci\u003eStealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America \u003c\/i\u003e(Random House, March 2009). \u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFields-Meyer, Ami:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eAmi Fields-Meyer\u003c\/b\u003e is a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation and a former senior policy advisor at the White House, where he led U.S. policy initiatives related to civil rights, consumer protection, and technology policy. He has served as a strategist to national civil rights organizations, political candidates, and high-profile public officials from Los Angeles City Hall to the West Wing. Fields-Meyer's writing on issues of democracy and public policy has been published in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eForeign Policy\u003c\/i\u003e and other outlets. A former speechwriter, he is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Julia Angwin \/ Hardcover \/ English","offer_id":48614232064157,"sku":"9780063491946","price":34.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_7dac8d96-12f6-4355-83db-b8bd38568a31.jpg?v=1783464530","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/on-courage-how-to-be-a-dissident-in-an-age-of-fear-9780063491946","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}