{"product_id":"defiance-til-death","title":"Defiance Til Death","description":"Condition: BRAND NEW\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9798317804466\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Trade paperback (US)\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2025\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bookbaby\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf yo","brand":"ALLIANCE DIST - SF","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":41860279369861,"sku":"PR435999","price":67.8,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/smartfoxbooks.co.nz\/products\/defiance-til-death","provider":"Smartfox Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}