Lived History: Lives We’ve
Lost, 2012-13, celebrates
the memory of thirty remarkable people.
These
tributes each embrace the personal as well as the political. Loving, intimate
recollections offer the kind of telling biographical detail often left out
of conventional obituaries.
Read William
Greider's tale of being shouted down while guest-lecturing at his friend Larry
Goodwyn's history class; Rick Perlstein's account of Aaron Swartz building him
his first website; Jessica Valenti watching Adam Yauch's acceptance
speech at the MTV Music Videos Awards and then crying with relief; Greg
Grandin's description of his first meeting with Hugo Chavez; and many more.
This eBookNation collection
of stories celebrates life. And by focusing on often unsung passion for social
justice that animated these extraordinary people, the pieces collected here
illuminate the history of important struggles that continue to this day. 