From Freedom to Slavery is the chilling prophecy of one of America's most original and fearless defenders of freedom, a book written with the passion of Thomas Paine. Brittle and profoundly disturbing, From Freedom to Slavery is destined to become a classic for the eloquent case that it makes: that we have delivered our freedoms to a new master, the corporate and governmental conglomerate, which Gerry Spence calls "the New King. " Spence, whose many trials include the Karen Silkwood case, has developed over the years a legendary rhetorical style that summons up the spirit of Clarence Darrow. Here, in this radical departure from his four previous, court-related books, he presents a most vivid and compelling premise: that in America, we have achieved the Orwellian prediction - enslaved, the people have been programmed to love their bondage and are left to clutch only miragelike images of freedom, its fables and fictions. The new slaves are linked together by vast electronic chains of television that imprison not their bodies but their minds. Their desires are programmed, their tastes manipulated, their values set for them. Whereas the black slave was chained to a living master, the new slave has become a digit, a mere item of production that expended by an invisible master without heart or soul. From Freedom to Slavery is a powerful and penetrating call to awaken from an insidious and enshrouding bondage that threatens the survival of American society. It is a plaintive and eloquent cry from a Westerner who mourns what America has lost in its reckless adoption of a free-spending, high-tech lifestyle, and a plea from one of America's most profound thinkers that we finally begin the painful task of examining ourselves. With Thoreau-like purity, Spence argues that such an awakening is the first step to freedom, for unless we understand our enslavement, we cannot reject it; unless we become aware of our imprisonment, we cannot free ourselves. From Freedom to Slavery is such a vital and clarion call.

From Freedom to Slavery: The Rebirth of Tyranny in America

Politics & Social Sciences

Spence, Gerry

Politics & Government

St Martins Pr

A celebrated defender of the oppressed offers an indictment of freedom in America, arguing that Americans have lost their freedoms to the corporate and government masters who manipulate their lives by controlling their desires

From Freedom To Slavery: The Rebirth of Tyranny in America

St. Martin's: Griffin

The Laws of Arguing According to Gerry Spence
1. Everyone is capable of making the winning argument. 2. Winning is getting what we want, which also means helping "others" get what they want. 3. Learn that words are a weapon, and can be used hostilely in combat. 4. Know that there is always a "biological advantage" of delivering the TRUTH. 5. Assault is not argument. 6. Use fear as an ally in pubic speaking or in argument. Learn to convert its energy. 7. Let emotions show and don't discourage passion. 8. Don't be blinded by brilliance. 9. Learn to speak with the body. The body sometimes speaks more powerfully than words. 10. Know that the enemy is not the person with whom we are engaged in a failing argument, but the vision within ourselves.

How to Argue and Win Every Time

Self-Help

Motivational

The author, who has defended Karen Silkwood and Randy Weaver among others, recounts his life growing up in Wyoming and the tragic event that caused him to become an attorney

The Making of a Country Lawyer

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

The Making of a Country Lawyer is the firsthand account of a beloved American attorney, a modern-day folk hero, a man who has devoted his life's work to the downtrodden and damned. It is the story of a wayward son who, at the age of twenty, suffered an immense and tragic loss. It is this single dark moment in Spence's life that transformed him, preparing him to be a trial lawyer, eventually handling such landmark cases as the defence of Randy Weaver and the vindication of Karen Silkwood. This is the stirring memoir of a man who has captured the American imagination at a time when our belief in our values and in ourselves has been shaken to the core, told as only Gerry Spence can.

The Making of a Country Lawyer: An Autobiography

Community & Culture

The final word on the trial of the century by America's best-loved criminal attorney and pundit--Gerry Spence--the man originally chosen to represent Simpson in his criminal trial and expert commentator throughout the affair. Spence uses the case not only to address the issue of race, but also to attack the media orgy and the culture of celebrity obsession and materialistic greed.

O.J. the Last Word

True Crime

Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century

Here, in this landmark personal work, Gerry demonstrates how, despite the democratic rhetoric we hear and believe, we have become enslaved. All of us are trapped by a complex web of corporate and governmental behemoths he calls the "New Slave Master" that today controls our airways, educates our children, and manages every facet of our lives. Yet, far from being a pronouncement of gloom, Give Me Liberty! is an inspiring and visionary work. In the spirit of his bestselling How to Argue and Win Every Time, Spence expounds on his philosophy, thus empowering us to: Liberate the slave within, redefine success, unchain the spirit, escape the religions of work and beliefs that enslave us, free ourselves with what he calls our "magical weapon." Like Thomas Paine's Common Sense, Give Me Liberty! captures the underlying malaise of a country, transforming it into a national dialogue that promises a groundswell for a meaningful democracy in America in the coming years.

Sociology

St.Martin's Press

Examines the O.J. Simpson criminal trial in terms of a troubled American legal system, discussing how Simpson escaped justice despite his guilt, the incompetence of the prosecution, and changes that are needed in the legal system

O.J. the Last Word: The Death of Justice

Social Sciences

Griffin

Gerry Spence is best known as an undefeated trail lawyer and a rugged individualist whose public pronouncements ring with the authority of common sense and moral vision. But like the Wyoming in which he grew to manhood, he has many facets. A lifelong photographer and poet, he now turns his attention to his native state to share the marvels and mysteries he finds in the landscape and among the people. Spence's Wyoming is a land fast disappearing, a land of pioneers and poor framers, of cowboys and mountain men and the strong women who helped settle the land. It is a place of extraordinary landscapes that seem to feel the breath of God, of mountains that inspire awe, of ancient trees whose figures bring true nobility to the face of the earth. Captured in stunning photographs, gorgeously reproduced in duotone, and accompanied by his poetry, which the author reads in the accompanying CD, Gerry Spence's Wyoming brings us a vision of the land that only love and intimate knowledge could produce.

Gerry Spence's Wyoming: The Landscape

Arts & Photography

Individual Artists

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From Freedom to Slavery: The Rebirth of Tyranny in America

From Freedom to Slavery: The Rebirth of Tyranny in America

From Freedom To Slavery: The Rebirth of Tyranny in America

How to Argue and Win Every Time

The Making of a Country Lawyer

The Making of a Country Lawyer: An Autobiography

O.J. the Last Word

Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century

O.J. the Last Word: The Death of Justice

Gerry Spence's Wyoming: The Landscape