Vietdamned - How the World’s Greatest Minds Put America on Trial (lydbok) av Clive Webb
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Clive Webb (forfatter), Matt Bates (innleser)

Vietdamned lydbok

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Guilty: the conclusion of many trials. But this verdict was unusual, delivered by a jury comprising of the greatest minds of the twentieth century: Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, James Baldwin and Stokely Carmichael, and over a dozen international luminaries - all presided over by the legendary philosopher-mathematician Bertrand Russell. The defendant was unusual, too: the United States government. In Vietdamned, award-winning historian Clive Webb reveals the extraordinary, little-k…

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Undertittel How the World’s Greatest Minds Put America on Trial
Forfattere Clive Webb (forfatter), Matt Bates (innleser)
Forlag Profile Audio
Utgitt 19 februar 2025
Lengde 8:26
Sjanger Dokumentar og fakta, Historie, Politikk og samfunn
Språk English
Format mp3
DRM-beskyttelse App-only
ISBN 9781805224884
Guilty: the conclusion of many trials. But this verdict was unusual, delivered by a jury comprising of the greatest minds of the twentieth century: Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, James Baldwin and Stokely Carmichael, and over a dozen international luminaries - all presided over by the legendary philosopher-mathematician Bertrand Russell. The defendant was unusual, too: the United States government.

In Vietdamned, award-winning historian Clive Webb reveals the extraordinary, little-known history of the 1967 Russell Tribunal and its attempt to hold the US government to account for atrocities committed during the Vietnam War. What they revealed shocked the world. In a revolutionary decade, these celebrity intellectuals put their careers and reputations at stake - and faced fierce opposition from the media, governments and the CIA.

Vietdamned is both a history of the anti-war movement and a story of the power (and limits) of celebrity, cover-ups and abuses of government.