num_pages: 320
description: An Unauthorized Biography of the World explores the practice of engaged oral the difficult, sometimes dangerous work of recovering fragments of human story that have gone missing from the official versions.Michael 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 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.
language: English
title: An Unauthorized Biography of the World
titlecomplete: An Unauthorized Biography of the World
genres: Nonfiction
ratings_count: 3
publisher: Between the Lines