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The Jokers by Albert Cossery

The Jokers (New York Review Books Classics) BY Albert Cossery. edited by Anna Moschovakis, James Buchan. NYRB Classics. Paperback, 232 pages. $14.
Cover of The Jokers (New York Review Books Classics)

Great political movements start from the ground up. A group of citizens, faced with a government they find corrupt or unethical, take to the streets and march through their cities, sowing grassroots dissent through speech, writing, discussion and art. Great rabblerousers have shifted the direction of nations because of a firmly held conviction that the prescribed route is simply wrong.