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Uprising

Diamond and Silk

 
“There were two women, these two beautiful women and I said - ‘well let me check it out.’ It took me about two seconds to say - ‘stardom.’”
— President Donald J. Trump

Regnery Publishing presents

UPRISING: WHO THE HELL SAID YOU CAN’t ditch and switch? The Awakening of Diamond and Silk

“Diamond and Silk are a national treasure, and their astonishing, heart-warming story is nothing less than an American classic. Get ready to be bowled over.”
— Mark Levin, Fox News star, National Radio Host
“Trump supporters Diamond and a Silk are gaining more notoriety every day. Recently, Saturday Night Live did their first parody of the duo.”
— Maryann Reid, Forbes
“These women have a lot of wit, a lot of humor and guts. They have more clarity on [our political] situation than 99% of the Black Studies professors. They’re terrific, brilliant and funny. Their book, “Uprising”, really, truly reflects them.”
— Dennis Prager, National Radio Host
“Every line they hurl from stage is a verbal love-child born of a hot July-night tryst between Martin Luther King Jr’s “I Have a Dream”, Barry White’s “I’m Gonna Love You Just A Little More Baby”, and Johnnie Cochran’s “If the glove don’t fit, you must acquit.””
— R. Todd Kelly, Marie Claire
“The two sisters became a positive force for President Trump through their clear messaging, forthright style and sheer gumption. The book offers a candid review about their experiences and the wisdom that emerged from them.”
— Jennifer Harper, Washington Times
“The cutting edge of political opinion on cable news today — honest, patriotic, sometimes controversial and always entertaining.”
— Christopher Ruddy, CEO of Newsmax Media
“On September 1, the most shared post on Facebook was by Diamond and Silk.”
— The Nation

FLASHBACK

“If Trump wins the White House, [Diamond and Silk’s] no-holds-barred video will go down in history as “the shot heard round the world,” Ralph Waldo Emerson’s phrase for the first salvo of the American Revolution by rural insurgents at Concord. The video signaled a popular uprising and furious pushback against the major media and political elites, who had controlled the national agenda and messaging for far too long. ”
— Camille Paglia, Salon, March 11, 2016

October 17, 2020: Saturday Night Live premiers Diamond and Silk parody, Crystal & Caviar

C-SPAN BOOK TV | SEPTEMBER 27, 2020 | PART OF NATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL

Call-In with Diamond and Silk

Lynette and Rochelle Hardaway, known as Diamond and Silk, are supporters of President Trump and discussed their book, Uprising, and took viewer phone calls.

UPRISING: Who the Hell Said You Can't Ditch and Switch - - The Awakening of Diamond and Silk (8/18; Regnery Publishing; hardcover; $28.99) depicts the against-all-odds rise of two virtually invisible black sisters from North Carolina to become the spark and emblem of one of the greatest political revolutions in American history.  Epochal and cinematic, personal and revealing, UPRISING is a clarion call for Americans of every star and stripe. 

Coming on the threshold of the most fateful presidential election in memory, UPRISING reveals the never before told story of the determined Hardaway family ("we knew all we had was each other”), their army veteran patriarch and pious mother, the sisters’ turbulent coming of age in Michigan and North Carolina and struggle for economic security, their political awakening and unplanned journey into the world of bare knuckles politics and activist media. 

Given over in the same gospel duet for which Diamond and Silk are famous, their memoir is a Frank Capra-style “little guy against the bosses" story for the ages, with a starring role for the American working class.

At this pivotal moment in history, when Rasmussen is reporting an astonishing 36% black voter approval in July for Trump, and the political party of the entitled is using every means at its disposal to keep the rest from bolting, the story of authentic black women factory laborers who lost faith in the shibboleths of their political party cries out to be heard.  

UPRISING describes:

  • An ambitious black teenage girl’s flight to independence from a sharecropping farm in North Carolina

  • The man who taught Lynnette and Rochelle about service, self reliance and hard work

  • The two most important people in their lives that no one knows about

  • The surprising type of religious school they attended, the unbelievable amount of trouble they got into as Preacher's Kids, and how they feel about religion today

  • The trade skills Lynnette and Rochelle learned in the real world

  • Their major health concerns

  • How the Democrat politicians they depended on for their livelihood betrayed their trust

  • The plague of hardship that descended upon “flyover country”

  • How they came up with the idea of calling themselves “Diamond and Silk”

  • How they appropriated the elite’s most powerful weapons and fired “the shot heard round the world” (Camille Paglia, Salon, March 2016)

  • Who really discovered them?

  • What happened the first time they met Donald Trump

  • The melee behind the scenes on election night 2016

  • Their first encounter with political censorship and what the actions of Google, Facebook and Congress reveal about the common man’s battle for freedom of speech

  • The real story of what happened at Fox News

  • Why all lives matter

Diamond and Silk’s genuine love for a brash, revolutionary president, their common sense biblical beliefs, authenticity and dominance of the digital alleyways of political dissent make them as dangerous to the establishment as Lenny Bruce was a few generations ago. Thrust to the ramparts by the American heartland, Lynnette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson catalyzed Donald Trump's election and became two of the most powerful women in America.  And so once again, the establishment is using opprobrium, censorship and (revealed now for the first time) death threats to silence their inconvenient voice.  The protected class will do anything to stop their uprising from succeeding a second time - but there are too many people of conscience now.

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