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The Books Briefing: The Revolution Will Be Written About

“Show me what democracy looks like.” Your weekly guide to the best in books.
Source: Library of Congress

As mass pro-democracy demonstrations continue to rock Hong Kong and student-led strikes around the world call for action against climate change, the variety of works in this Books Briefing can lend insight into the many forms protest has taken over the decades.

In his graphic memoir, , Representative John Lewis documents the struggle and heartbreak, as well as the victories, of the civil-rights movement. The historian Emily E. LB. Twarog writes of the

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