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New paperback in from Naomi Wolf, author of The End of America and The Beauty Myth, among others.  Part exposition, part how-to guide.  Come check out Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries (Simon & Schuster, $13.95).  IN STOCK!

We have a bad conscience that we do not wish to examine.  It banks the fire of felt liberty within ourselves.  It violates what we instinctively know to be true, which is the universal and transitive nature of freedom.  Psychiatrists know that a violent split within the self can lead to psychiatric problems.  The same is true for us as a nation.  There is a pain that is depression, certainly; there is a pain that is loneliness or overwork; but there is also, especially if you are American and thus exposed to the light of the original ideal, a muffled pain that is corrupted conscience about how we are suppressing our brother and sister “Americans” overseas.

-Naomi Wolf, Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries (Simon & Schuster, $13.95)

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