{"product_id":"9781897071762","title":"An Unauthorized Biography of the World: Oral History on the Front Lines","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                                      \u003cem\u003eAn Unauthorized Biography of the World\u003c\/em\u003e explores the practice of engaged oral history: the difficult, sometimes dangerous work of recovering fragments of human story that have gone missing from the official versions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                                      \u003cp\u003eMichael Riordon has thirty years’ experience as a writer and broadcaster in the field. Readers will encounter a gallery of brave, passionate people who gather silenced voices and lost life stories. The canvas is broad, the stakes are high: the battles for First Nations lands in Canada; environmental justice in Chicago; genocide in Peru; homeless people organizing in Cleveland; September 11\/01, and after, in New York City; gay survivors of electroshock in Britain; the struggle to preserve a people’s identity in Newfoundland; peasant resistance to a huge transnational gold mine in Turkey.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Between the Lines","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47171222503664,"sku":"9781897071762","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781897071762_p0.jpg?v=1763610434","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781897071762","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}