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30%OFFCecily Mcmillan - The Emancipation of Cecily McMillan: An American Memoir - 9781568585383 - V9781568585383
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The Emancipation of Cecily McMillan: An American Memoir

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Description for The Emancipation of Cecily McMillan: An American Memoir Hardcover. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BM; JFFK; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 243 x 31. Weight in Grams: 506.
Cecily McMillan didn't come from much: she had a hardscrabble life bouncing between the members of a broken family scattered from Texas to Atlanta. Her relationship with her parents became increasingly strained, and at sixteen she was legally emancipated and taken in by a beloved teacher. She became politically active at a young age, leading walkouts against the Iraq War in high school and protesting against union busting in college. When she moved to New York for a masters degree at the New School, she found herself planning what would later become Occupy Wall Street.On St. Patrick's Day, 2012, her ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Nation Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781568585383
SKU
V9781568585383
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About Cecily Mcmillan
Cecily McMillan is an activist, union organizer, and advocate for prison reform whose participation in and arrest during the Occupy Wall Street movement, along with her trial and conviction, have been widely covered by the national media, including Vanity Fair, the New York Times, Cosmopolitan, and Rolling Stone, among others. Her own writing has appeared in the New York Times ... Read more

Reviews for The Emancipation of Cecily McMillan: An American Memoir
Emotionally provocative, politically explosive, this memoir is a beautiful reminder that true patriots never stop battling to make their countries better.
Shelf Awareness, Starred Review Cecily McMillan's self-portrait of the activist as a young woman dignifies the played-out term 'badass.' Many people braved the wilds of Zuccotti Park; far more have endured Rikers Island
what sets McMillan apart is ... Read more

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