Incisive grassroots account of the new global revolutions by acclaimed BBC journalist and author of Meltdown
Paul Mason is the economics editor of the BBC's flagship current affairsprogram Newsnight and appears frequently on BBC World News America.He has covered globalization and social justice stories from locations aroundthe world, including Latin America, Africa and China. His book Live Working,Die Fighting was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award.
The writing style of this reportage is compact, urgent,
present-tense, declarative, and addictive.
*Guardian*
He's lively, funny and engaging, trading in the energy derived from
the thrill and significance of what he's witnessing.
*Time Out*
Superb overview of the global protest movements of 2011.
*New Internationalist*
This book not only reads as an in-depth consideration of global
politics today, but offers a personal memoir from a man who has had
a ringside seat. We are blessed that the BBC, for all the
criticisms, still employs journalists whose logic and unfailing
inquisitiveness brings us such analysis.
*Camden New Journal*
You will learn something new and challenging on every page of this
book.
*Scotland on Sunday*
The mix of wide-ranging reportage and historical analysis is lively
and insightful.
*Metro*
A cogent, accessible analysis of the ongoing forces of global
upheaval....[a] lively collection of essays and reportage.
*Kirkus Reviews*
Testament to his instincts as a veteran journalist, Mason managed
to be everywhere right as things were kicking off-traversing the
globe from the Middle East to Europe to America to Asia. [T]he book
combines a feel for the breathlessness of events as they unfold
with a historian's eye for patterns and precedents ... Mason's
prose beautifully captures the almost surreal mood that often
accompanies mass shifts in consciousness.
*Socialist Worker*
These reports are good journalism. One feels as if they are present
at the rallies, occupations and riots that Mason describes. The
anecdotal tales he provides should remind anyone who participated
in any kind of popular resistance in the past decades of the energy
and hope one finds and feels at such events. These are the stuff
that makes one join such movements. Worthwhile and provocative.
*Counterpunch*
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