Bøger af Ron Jacobs

Nowhere Land: Journeys Through a Broken Nation, chronicles Ron Jacobs' journeys from New England to Oregon, Texas to Minnesota and beyond, examining the US as it struggles to remember and redefine itself on its way toward an uncertain future.

Is a nightmare still a dream? If so, is this the American Dream? These essays written in the years 2018-2022 take a look at the nation the United States is today. Most of them first appeared in Counterpunch. From Iraq to Afghanistan, Washington to Kyiv; from Black Lives Matter to imperial war, Jacobs takes a hard look at the world we have created. It's not necessarily pretty and hope is not the lead descriptor.

Guy the snowman goes on a quest to find the perfect New Year's Resolution. He searches high and low in his neighborhood and through his town of Snowville. He asks everyone he sees. Until finally, he finds the answer was right in his Bible all along. Contains biblical quotations. Children's book. Easy to read and understand. Large print. 50+ full color pages. Previously titled "Snowguy & the New Year's Resolution" this revision of the 2019 story has a new look, more biblical quotations, and all new artwork by artist Tricia Jacobs of Greenbelly Studios. Available on Kindle and in paperback.

1975. America has lost its war in Vietnam and Cambodia. Racially-tinged riots are tearing the city of Boston apart. The politics and counterculture of the 1960s is disintegrating into nothing more than sex, drugs and rock and roll. The Boston Red Sox are on one of their improbable runs toward a postseason appearance. In a suburban town in Maryland, a young couple is murdered and another young man is accused. The couple are white and the accused is black. It is up to his friends and family to prove he is innocent. This is a story of suburban ennui, race, murder and injustice. Religion and politics, liberal lawyers and racist cops. In Short Order Frame Up, Ron Jacobs has written a piece of crime fiction that exposes the wound that is US racism. Two cultures existing side by side and across generations--a river very few dare to cross. His characters work and live with and next to each other, often unaware of the other's real life. When the murder occurs, however, those people that care about the man charged must cross that river and meet somewhere in between in order to free him from (what is to them) an obvious miscarriage of justice.

A young draftee named Victor Willard goes AWOL in Germany after an altercation with a commanding officer. Porgy is an African-American GI involved with the international Black Panthers and German radicals. Victor and a female radical named Ana fall in love. They move into Ana's room in a squatted building near the US base in Frankfurt. The international campaign to free Black revolutionary Angela Davis is coming to Frankfurt. Porgy and Ana are key organizers and Victor spends his days and nights selling and smoking hashish, while becoming addicted to heroin. Police and narcotics agents are keeping tabs on them all. Politics, love, and drugs. Truths, lies, and rock and roll. All the Sinners, Saints is a story of people seeking redemption in a world awash in sin.This is the third novel in the Seventies series by Jacobs, and is a prequel to Short Order Frame Up (ISBN- 9780977459094) and Co-Conspirator's Tale (ISBN- 9780983206309).

This devotional coloring book was created for Bible study, writing, drawing, coloring, and painting. The series of black and white images were created by artist Tricia Jacobs. They are a beginning, a jumping off point, to inspire your daily journaling. Join us in Bible study and worship. Let us praise our Savior through devotions, prayer, and creative expression, together. Let us seek the Lord in all that we do! 100 pages, Large print.

This book was created to share the artwork of Artist Tricia Jacobs. You can color, journal, and study the Bible while reading this book. There are places for notes, doodles, coloring, and self expression. Each drawing is original and out of Tricia's own imagination; her sketchbook, and drawing tablet are full of ideas as she expresses her love for Jesus Christ. She hopes this book helps you to express yourself freely as we worship our Savior together, through art. How to use this book: Bible Study, Coloring, Sketching, Doodling, Notes. Our favorite pens to use for coloring and note taking are fine point pens. They come in a variety of colors and don't usually bleed through the paper. Colored pencils, watercolor pencils, gel pens, and watercolor paints are fun to use too. If you use markers, watercolor paints or pencils, you'll want to put a stiff piece of thin cardboard behind your page as you draw. This will help curb the bleed-through you get from some paper types. We have inserted blank, note, and doodle pages after artwork to assist with bleed-through. Also, using minimal water with the paints and placing a paper towel between layers to dry overnight is helpful. More tips and a list of our favorite art supplies are available on our website at: www.Greenbelly.biz. This book contains 98 pages and is suggested for preteens, teens, and adult age groups.

There's a place where love and mistrust are never at peace; where duplicity and deceit are the universal currency. The Co-Conspirator's Tale takes place within this nebulous firmament. There are crimes committed by the police in the name of the law. Excess in the name of revolution. The combination leaves death in its wake and the survivors struggling to find justice in a San Francisco Bay Area noir by the author of the underground classic The Way the Wind Blew: A History of the Weather Underground and the novel Short Order Frame Up

Today, there is an ever growing demand for control over the time, place and means of dying. Many governments are passing laws which allow people to choose death once it appears that their life will end soon anyway. It is hard to argue with their logic. Why shouldn't we have the option of death with dignity rather than the desperate struggle of the suffering in their last days? This book is not an attempt to argue the legality or morality of assisted suicide. It is birthed from my own encounter with the desire to escape from incredible pain. In my struggle, I came to the place where I wanted to die, I prayed for death, I longed for it to come but it remained at a distance. I read books on suicide, made plans on how I could do it and ensure success and walked right up to the edge of that chasm. Few people really understand the kind of pain that can drive a person to that place. My encounter with a very rare, untreatable and painful disease brought me to that place. As a Christian, I met God there and he taught me some valuable lessons that I want to share with you. Some of you may feel guilty for even having the feeling that you want to end your life. Others are even at this moment making a plan to finish it. I'm not here to condemn you. Please just take a moment and listen to my story before you do anything.

Love, war and peace. Passions transcending time and as permanent as the history being made. Manhattan, 911, and desire. Vietnam, Berkeley and the road. Three main characters personify them all. This novella is a reflection of the time and on the times.

Guy the snowman goes an an adventure to help a neighbor. While the neighbor is home sick in bed, his horses are trapped behind a snow fence. Snowguy and his snowplow driver friend, Tim, help the trapped horses. It all works out in the end for the good of everyone. This story contains a good moral about helping others in need. Easy to read and understand for anyone. Contains biblical quotations. 20+ color pages and illustrations by author and illustrator Tricia Jacobs. This book was independently produced by Greenbelly Studios. Learn more at: www.GreenbellyStudios.com Greenbelly Studios has released more than 20 books for children and adults since late 2016.

This book is a journey through our current reality. From Donald Trump to NCIS; from the rock and roll of Bruce Springsteen to the jazz melodies of Wadada Leo Smith; from the football fields of the NFL to the punk bars of San Francisco, Ron Jacobs guides the reader through the madness we call the twenty-first century. It's rarely pretty, but it can be entertaining. This collection of essays written between 2012 and 2018 are a sampling of Jacobs' writing for Counterpunch and other magazines over those years.

Guy the snowman goes on an adventure in his neighborhood to discover the true meaning of Christmas. When he's finally given up, he finds the answer in his Bible. Includes biblical quotations from the King James Bible. Children's book. Easy to read and understand. Large print. 2019 Re-release of the 2018 story with all new 20+ full color pages. Invitation to accept Jesus as your Savior on the last page.

The 1960s are remembered for radical politics, explorations of sexuality, drug experimentation and rock and roll. All of these elements composed the 60s counterculture. Then things changed. Richard Nixon got elected president, and together with Congress, made the war on drugs a cultural and political crusade replete with lots of cops, guns and constituional violations. Youthful protesters were murdered by authorities in Berkeley, Kent State and Jackson State. Divisions over tactics and politics combined with police repression to splinter and dissipate the left political movement. The Vietnam war finally ended and Abbie Hoffman went underground after a cocaine bust. Meanwhile, in one of its most manipulative moments, corporate America was quickly figuring out how to put sex, drugs and rock and roll up for sale. Hippies became freaks; Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and Pigpen died untimely deaths, but the rock show went on. The 1970s were the decade the Sixties spirit struggled to survive while becoming a shadow of its dreams. Daydream Sunset is the story Ron Jacobs tells in his colorful history of the 1970s. From the Fillmore East to Oakland Coliseum; from Berkeley's Telegraph Ave to the streets of Europe, this alternative history of this fraught time will make you feel like dancing in your seats and wondering what might have been. One part reminiscence and several parts cultural history, Jacobs has crafted a thrilling and intimate narrative that takes the reader on a trip through a crazy history some people don't remember and others want us to forget.

A collection of essays about life in these United States from a libertarian left perspective. Many of the essays appeared in the journal Counterpunch and cover everything from the resignation of Richard Nixon to the knighthood of Mick Jagger;the war in Vietnam to the debacle in Baghdad; and from the streets of Washington DC to Berkeley, California.

A collection of essays on Donald Trump and the phenomenon of Trumpism.

This history of the Weatherman Underground covers the origins, development and ultimate demise of the organization. Drawing on an array of documents, interviews with participants, and a knowledge of the history of the New Left, Jacobs gives an objective assessment of US 1960s radicalism.