Take a Stand: Lessons from Rebels

Take a Stand: Lessons from Rebels

by Jorge Ramos
Take a Stand: Lessons from Rebels

Take a Stand: Lessons from Rebels

by Jorge Ramos

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Overview

Emmy Award-winning journalist and Univision anchor Jorge Ramos looks back on groundbreaking interviews with rebels such as President Barack Obama, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Spike Lee, Barbara Walters, Fidel Castro, and more.

After 30 fascinating years uncovering the hard truth, journalist Jorge Ramos opens up for the first time about life-altering lessons by sharing captivating never-before-told stories. Widely recognized for his unapologetic, no-holds-barred approach to interviewing global leaders, business titans, democratic policy makers, and dictators, Ramos unearths their one common trait—they were all rebels at one point in their lives.

Rebels are different. They decided to challenge the prevailing status quo. Sometimes they rebelled to change a regime, other times to prevent abuse or discrimination, but in most cases they strived to correct an injustice.

Candid and at times controversial, Ramos draws invaluable awareness of issues that influence the mindset of the largest minority in the country—Latinos—and how they will undoubtedly shape not only Presidential elections but also the future of America.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781101989654
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 03/15/2016
Sold by: Penguin Group
Format: eBook
Pages: 304
File size: 8 MB

About the Author

About The Author
Jorge Ramos is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist, and the author of ten books. Hailed by Time magazine as one of “the 25 most influential Hispanics in the United States,” Ramos has been the anchorman for Noticiero Univision since 1986. He also hosts the weekly show America with Jorge Ramos and the Sunday morning public affairs show Al Punto on Fusion. In 2017, he was awarded the Walter Cronkite Award in the US and the Gabriel Garcia Marquez prize in Colombia for his excellence in journalism.

Table of Contents

Introduction On Rebels, the Powerful and Otherwise 1

1 Taking a Stand in 2016 15

2 Barack Obama's (Unkept) Promise 27

3 Two Bushes, Two Wars: Don't Trust Them If They Send You to War 47

4 Fidel Castro: Treat a Dictator like a Dictator 63

5 The Power of "No": Lessons from Cuban Dissidents 75

6 Hugo Chavez: I Am Not the Devil 91

7 The One Who Loses Is the One Who Tires First: Leopoldo López and Lilian Tintori 119

8 Carlos Salinas de Gortari: Mexico's Favorite Villain 129

9 Dilemmas of a Masked Guerrilla: Subcomandante Marcos 143

10 Enrique Peña Nieto: Saving Mexico? 153

11 Alvaro Uribe: The Irascible Survivor 169

12 The Cost of Rebellion: The Case of Ingrid Betancourt 179

13 Daniel Ortega, or the Revolution That Left Everything the Same 187

14 Money Isn't Everything: What the Super-rich Can Teach Us: Bill Gates, Richard Branson, and Jorge Pérez 195

15 Don't Let Them Discriminate Against You: Sonia Sotomayor 213

6 Spike Lee and Doing the Right Thing 221

17 Do Your Homework-Lessons from Three Great Journalists: Barbara Walters, Oriana Fallaci, and Elena Poniatowska 231

18 Devoting Your Life to a Dream: Benjamin Netanyahu and Hanan Ashrawi 247

19 Know That You Will Win: Desmond Tutu 259

20 America's DREAMers: The First Step Is Losing Your Fear 265

21 Final Lessons: What I Learned from Thirty Years of Interviews 277

Appendix: Author's Speech to the Committee to Protect Journalists, New York, November 24, 2014 289

Acknowledgments 293

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