Hope in the Dark
Subtitle: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
Publisher: Nation Books
Published: April 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9781560255772
Subjects: Social action; Politics/International Relations; Environmental Policy; U.S. - Contemporary Politics; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Social change; Public Policy - General; History & Theory - General; Government - General; Hope
First sentence: On January 18, 1915, six months into the First World War, as all Europe was convulsed by killing and dying, Virginia Woolf wrote in her journal, "The future is dark, which is on the whole, the best thing the future can be, I think."
Description: "Author Rebecca Solnit draws on her life as a writer and activist, on the events of our moment, on our deepest past, to argue for hope - hope even in the dark. Solnit reminds us of how changed the world has been by the activism of the past five decades. Offering a dazzling account of some of the least expected of those changes, she proposes a vision of cause-and-effect relations that provides new grounds for political engagement in the present. Counting historic victories - from the fall of the Berlin wall to the Zapatista uprising to Seattle in 1999 to the Worldwide marches against war in Iraq to Cancun in September 2003 - she traces the rise of a sophisticated, supple, nonviolent new movement of movements that unites all the diverse and fragmentary issues of the eighties and nineties in our new century."--BOOK JACKET.