Told through the lives of the American Centurys most talented and stubborn dissidentsamp160Flightsamp160is the archetypal heroamp8217s journey of a group of progressives whose struggle for truth and for freedom from persecution sent them into exile both literal and metaphorical.amp10Wanted for a crime she did not commit Professor Angela Davis went on the run in 1970 describing the struggle against panic in her nightly safehouse transfers Living as a fugitive means resisting hysteria distinguishing between the creations of a frightened imagination and the real signs that the enemy is near. In her quest amp8220to elude him outsmart himamp8221 she recalled amp8220Thousands of my ancestors had waited as I hadamp8230for nightfall to cover their stepsamp8230amp8221amp10Davis is just one of a rich array of refugees portrayed here by Joel Whitney all forced to flee homes andor friends because of their progressive stance. In these pages are compelling profiles of Seymour Hersh Lorraine Hansberry Graham Greene Paul Robeson Gabriel Garcamp237iacutea Mamp225aacuterquez George ampamp Mary Oppen Frances Stonor Saunders Malcolm X Octavio Paz Diego Rivera Angela Davis Leonard Peltier N. Scott Momaday Miguel amp193ngel Asturias Guatemalan guerrilla fighter Everado and his American wife Jennifer Harbury Nobel Peace laureate Rigoberta Menchamp250uacute deposed Honduran President Manuel amp34Melamp34 Zelaya and murdered Lenca environmentalist Berta Camp225ceres.amp10At once a group portrait of these geniuses of creative escapeamp160Flightsamp160is also a prehistory and indictment of American mass surveillance culminating in Edward Snowdenamp8217s revelations of torture culminating in Abu Ghraib of censorship culminating in the incarceration of journalist Julian Assange of fascism culminating in January 6 and of political murder culminating in the BushObamaTrump air assassination program.