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Oct 12, 2022 · “The Persuaders,” by Anand Giridharadas, profiles progressive activists and organizers who are embracing bold tactics to persuade other Americans to change their views.
Oct 18, 2022 · THE PERSUADERS AT THE FRONT LINES OF THE FIGHT FOR HEARTS, MINDS, AND DEMOCRACY. by Anand Giridharadas ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 18, 2022. A welcome, revealing study of how political messages can be shaped positively to counter both enmity and disinformation.
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Grade approached Moore and broke the news that — congratulations! — he would soon be co-starring in a 24-episode action series called ‘The Friendly Persuaders’, based on a Saint episode where Simon Templar teams up with a Texan adventurer. Moore was pencilled in to play the aristocratic Lord Brett Sinclair who tackles crime alongside a brash Americ...
The locations are fabulous. In The Saint, Moore rarely left Hertfordshire’s Elstree Studios, which doubled unconvincingly for the likes of Venice, Rome and Monte Carlo; but in The Persuaders!all the action really was filmed in sunny Italy and France, and — less impressively — a rainy, autumnal England including, bizarrely, Brighton in one episode. ...
Gritty and serious the series ain’t, although some episodes (notably ‘Angie, Angie’) lean more heavily on drama than comedy. For instance, in the very first Persuaders! outing, Judge Fulton (Laurence Naismith) — the man who gives Sinclair and Wilde their missions — berates them for being contemptible, foolish, jet-setting wasters who lead sad, empt...
Aficionados will know that Mission: Monte Carlo, London Conspiracy, Sporting Chance and The Switchwere released as feature films in some territories in the 1970s (the first three were also available on video); but the others never saw the light of day in English, so this Blu-ray presentation does right that wrong. That still leaves eight episodes u...
It turned out that The Persuaders! wasn’t a sure-fire TV ratings smash — or, at least, not in America where it really mattered. In Europe, it was a huge hit with viewers, but in the US it went up against Mission: Impossible in a prime time slot and suffered accordingly. Moore went off to be James Bond, and although there was talk of replacing him w...
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Oct 17, 2022 · Author Anand Giridharadas speaks with NPR's Steve Inskeep about The Persuaders, his new account of Americans fighting for democracy.
Oct 18, 2022 · 1,964 ratings302 reviews. An insider account of activists, politicians, educators, and everyday citizens working to change minds, bridge divisions, and save democracy. The lifeblood of any free society is persuasion: changing other people's minds to enable real change.
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Oct 23, 2022 · That’s what many of the interlocutors in journalist Anand Giridharadas’ new book, The Persuaders (Knopf, Oct. 18), have been working on ever since MAGA hove into view. They face formidable odds against a welter of closed minds and open mouths.
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