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Bill Branyon is a free-lance historian who has written three books: Blue Ridge Blues — a respectful, science fiction look at Billy Graham; Asheville NC, circa 2,000 AD — a historical faction about Asheville politics and culture; and now his first nonfiction book, Liberating Liberals: a political synthesis of Nietzsche and Jesus, Vonnegut and Marx (Groucho, not Karl) and Gandhi and Machiavelli.
For the last twenty years Bill has been a staff reporter and editorialist for the Mountain Xpress. He has a Masters degree in history from WCU, and a BA in history from Vanderbilt. He’s run for mayor, walked for peace, and is a hyper-activist — when not lying out by the pool.
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This very dramatic look at one of the thousands of Occupy Wall Street trials, also provides an expose of lowly misdemeanor court and the people who are victims of our economy. Meanwhile defendent Clare Hanrahan gives a rousing defense that Perry Mason would be proud of.