{"product_id":"defiance-til-death-9798317804466","title":"Defiance Til Death","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Robert L. Arnold | Margaret Colangelo\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bookbaby\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bookbaby\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Essays\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Defiance Til Death\" is a literary grenade lobbed into the heart of American hypocrisy. Written in the unapologetic voice of Robert L. Arnold, a Southern poet, this collection of essays, poems, and polemics rips through the facade of patriotism, capitalism, and sanitized history to expose the raw, furious truth of a nation at war with itself. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the collapsing myth of the American Dream to the weaponization of Jesus, from the blood-stained hands of gun lobby puppets to the hollow theater of modern politics, Arnold spares no one. He writes with the fire of a man raised on gospel and gravel, who knows the smell of riverbank mud and the sting of generational betrayal. His voice is that of the working class radical ... razor-sharp, heartbreakingly poetic, and absolutely done with polite resistance. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese aren't essays, they're calls to rise up. They're prayers scrawled on cardboard signs. They're the guttural screams of parents buying bulletproof backpacks for their five-year-olds. They're what happens when a country forgets that liberty was meant to be lived, not branded. Arnold gives voice to the disillusioned, the angry, the stubbornly hopeful, and the furiously awake. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut this book isn't just an indictment ... it's a blueprint. A reclamation. A reminder that hope is not a whisper but a weapon, and that joy, in the face of tyranny, is the loudest act of defiance. Through blistering satire, brutal truth, and moments of unexpected tenderness, The Whole Shooting Match stitches together a people's history of the present ... a record of what it means to live, resist, and dream in the ashes of empire. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIf you've ever felt the fire in your chest and didn't know where to aim it, this book is your match","brand":"Bookbaby","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48221533765783,"sku":"9798317804466","price":2793.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798317804466.webp?v=1788753906","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/defiance-til-death-9798317804466","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}