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A great book about political hope is Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit .

A great book about political hope is Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit. Read it - and you'll see how the times of greatest hope are the times of greatest turbulence. Astra Taylor, author, The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age. Rebecca Solnit is a national literary treasure: a passionate, close-to-the-ground reporter with the soul and voice of a philosopher-poet. And, unlike so many who write about the great injustices of this world, she is an optimist, whose faith is deeply grounded in a knowledge of history. This is a book to give you not just hope but zest for the battles ahead. Adam Hochschild, author, King Leopold’s Ghost.

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Solnit's history of activist victories is driven by a theory of hope as a discipline, not a foreign object one does . Although, my first reading of Solnit was pointed towards Feminism this volume, "Hope in the Dark," is historical. It looks backward from the Bush Administration.

Solnit's history of activist victories is driven by a theory of hope as a discipline, not a foreign object one does or does not possess. Hope requires action and practice; action requires a belief that the world can be changed; believing that the world can be changed requires a knowledge and respect of history. It is pertinent to 2017 because Democratic voters are as depleted by the Trump election as the election of Bush, maybe even more.

Rebecca Solnit has written seven acclaimed works of non-fiction, including Motion Studies:Time, Space and Eadweard Muybridge (Bloomsbury) and Wanderlust: A History of Walking (Verso).

Drawing from thinkers of the last century - including Woolf, Ghandi, Borges, Benjamin and Havel. She creates a manifesto for optimism for the twenty-first century and gives us all true reasons to never surrender. Rebecca Solnit has written seven acclaimed works of non-fiction, including Motion Studies:Time, Space and Eadweard Muybridge (Bloomsbury) and Wanderlust: A History of Walking (Verso). An activist, columnist and cultural historian, she has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Lannan Literary Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

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Hope in the Dark traces a history of activism and social change over the past five decades – from the fall . Rebecca Solnit has written eighteen acclaimed works of non-fiction, including Wanderlust: A History of Walking and A Field Guide to Getting Lost.

Hope in the Dark traces a history of activism and social change over the past five decades – from the fall of the Berlin Wall, to the worldwide marches against the war in Iraq. Following in the footsteps of the last century’s thinkers – including Woolf, Gandhi, Borges, Benjamin and Havel – Solnit conjures a timeless vision of cause and effect that will light our way through the dark, and lead us to profound and effective political engagement.

Rebecca Solnit has written eighteen acclaimed works of non-fiction, including Wanderlust: A History of Walking and A Field Guide to Getting Lost

Rebecca Solnit has written eighteen acclaimed works of non-fiction, including Wanderlust: A History of Walking and A Field Guide to Getting Lost. An activist, columnist and cultural historian, she has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Lannan Literary Award. She lives in San Francisco.

This is part of what lies at the heart of Rebecca Solnit's philosophy: sometimes the most unlikely-seeming actions can set off positive chain reactions .

This is part of what lies at the heart of Rebecca Solnit's philosophy: sometimes the most unlikely-seeming actions can set off positive chain reactions, even in the darkest times. And the tool to bring about change is: hope. Casting her net across the world, cultural historian Solnit draws a convincing catch of evidence over the past four decades.

Hope in the Dark is a paean to optimism in the uncertainty of the twenty-first century

Hope in the Dark is a paean to optimism in the uncertainty of the twenty-first century. Tracing the footsteps of the last century's thinkers - including Woolf, Gandhi, Borges, Benjamin and Havel - Solnit conjures a timeless vision of cause and effect that will light our way through the dark, and lead us to profound and effective political engagement.