Join Amy Goodman, the Award-winning Host of Democracy Now!
and New York Times Best-selling Author, for a Special Book Launch Event:
BREAKING THE SOUND BARRIER
Monday, October 5
7:00 pm
Barnes and Noble, Tribeca
97 Warren St., New York, NY
"You can learn more of the truth about Washington and the world from one week of Amy Goodman's Democracy Now! than from a month of Sunday morning talk shows. Make that a year of Sunday morning talk shows. That's because Amy, as you will discover on every page of this book, knows the critical question for journalists is how close they are to the truth, not how close they are to power." --From the Foreword by Bill Moyers
"Amy Goodman is a towering progressive freedom-fighter in the media and the world. Breaking the Sound Barrier is another expression of her vision and courage." --Cornel West
ABOUT THE BOOK
Amy Goodman breaks through the corporate media's lies, sound-bites, and silence in this wide-ranging new collection of articles. In place of the usual suspects, the "experts" who, in Goodman's words, "know so little about so much, explain the world to us, and get it so wrong," this accessible, lively collection allows the voices the corporate media exclude and ignore to be heard loud and clear. From community organizers in New Orleans, to the courageous American soldiers who've said "No" to Washington's wars, to the victims of torture and police violence, we are given the extraordinary opportunity to hear ordinary people standing up and speaking out. As Willie Nelson says, "There is no one who should be more on the mainstream media, every day reminding us and giving us a glimpse of the power of one."
Written with all of the fierce intelligence and passion for truth that millions have come to expect from Amy Goodman's reportage, Breaking the Sound Barrier is, in Arianna Huffington's words, "crusading journalism at its best."
Breaking the Sound Barrier
By Amy Goodman, Edited by Denis Moynihan
Foreword by Bill Moyers
trade paper, $16, 380 pages
ISBN: 978-1-931859-99-8
Releasing simultaneously in audio book format
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Amy Goodman is an award-winning investigative journalist and syndicated King Features columnist, author and the host/executive producer of Democracy Now! airing on nearly 800 stations worldwide. Goodman is the first journalist to receive the Right Livelihood Award, widely known as the 'Alternative Nobel Prize' for "developing an innovative model of truly independent grassroots political journalism that brings to millions of people the alternative voices that are often excluded by the mainstream media." Goodman is the co-author with her brother, journalist David Goodman, of three New York Times bestsellers: Standing Up to the Madness, Static, and The Exception to the Rulers.
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