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Democracy Now's Amy Goodman and investigative journalist David Goodman discuss and sign Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times. This new book profiles citizens rising to extraordinary challenges and, in the process,they are changing the way that politics is done, both now and in the future.
Standing Up to the Madness not only is a timely, inspiring, and even revolutionary look at who wields the greatest power in America-everyday people who take a chance and stand up for what they believe in-but also offers advice on what you can do to help.
Biography
Amy Goodman is an internationally acclaimed journalist and host of the daily grassroots global news hour Democracy Now!, which airs on more than 600 radio and TV stations around the world and on democracynow.org. Democracy Now! is the largest media collaboration in North American public broadcasting. She has won many of the most prestigious awards in journalism, including the George Polk Award, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, and the Robert F. Kennedy Prize for International Reporting.
David Goodman is an award-winning independent journalist, the author of seven books, and a contributing writer to Mother Jones. His articles have appeared in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Outside, The Nation, and numerous other publications. He is the author of the critically acclaimed book Fault Lines: Journeys into the New South Africa. He lives with his wife and two children in Vermont.
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