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Included in the volume are:
• Fonda’s leading antiwar speeches from the early 1970s, from the historical archives of the Indochina Peace Campaign and other peace groups
• the FBI transcripts of Fonda’s broadcasts over Radio Hanoi in 1972
• the transcript of Fonda’s press conference in Paris after her Hanoi trip
• speeches and interviews on behalf of the antinuclear movement in the 1970s and 1980s
• a fascinating 1984 interview with Erica Jong
• speeches and interviews on feminism, international women’s rights, and girls’ self-esteem
• Fonda’s most recent speeches against the war in Iraq
Jane Fonda’s Words of Politics and Passion
Foreword by Eve Ensler
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$16.95 / £9.99
—PATRICIA BOSWORTH, AUTHOR OF THE FORTHCOMING JANE FONDA: HER LIFE AND TIMES
Jane Fonda’s Words of Politics and Passion collects Fonda’s most stirring public statements from 1970 through 2005, in speeches, interviews, and articles from over thirty years of tireless campaigning against war and militarism and on behalf of women’s rights, women’s health, feminism, and the environment. Historian Mary Hershberger “has unearthed a treasure trove,” according to Ms. magazine. “Whether discussing peace, feminism or girls’ empowerment, [Fonda] is thoughtful, courageous and always committed to the betterment of others.”
In 1970, at the height of an award-winning acting career, Jane Fonda took a sharp turn into politics. She would go on to play an influential role in the anti-Vietnam War movement and in nearly every subsequent movement for social justice in the United States.
Hershberger has culled Fonda’s words from a range of little-known and previously inaccessible sources, including the declassified FBI files obtained by Fonda herself in a federal lawsuit, and from antiwar movement archives that have never been made available to a general public.
Mary Hershberger is the author of Traveling to Vietnam: American Peace Activists and the War and Jane Fonda’s War (The New Press). She lives with her family in Columbus, Ohio. Jane Fonda’s work on stage and screen has earned numerous honors, including two Best Actress Academy Awards and an Emmy Award. She now focuses her time on activism and philanthropy. She lives in Atlanta.
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5 1/2 x 8 1/4, 192 pages
978-1-59558-217-1
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