"One of the Best Books of the 21st Century." --The Guardian "No
writer has better understood the mix of fear and possibility, peril
and exuberance that's marked this new millennium." --Bill McKibben
"An elegant reminder that activist victories are easily forgotten,
and that they often come in extremely unexpected, roundabout ways."
--The New Yorker A book as powerful and influential as Rebecca
Solnit's Men Explain Things to Me, her Hope in the Dark was written
to counter the despair of radicals at a moment when they were
focused on their losses and had turned their back to the victories
behind them--and the unimaginable changes soon to come. In it, she
makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world
whose future remains uncertain and unknowable. Drawing on her
decades of activism and a wide reading of environmental, cultural,
and political history, Solnit argued that radicals have a long,
neglected history of transformative victories, that the positive
consequences of our acts are not always immediately seen, directly
knowable, or even measurable, and that pessimism and despair rest
on an unwarranted confidence about what is going to happen next.
Now, with a moving new introduction explaining how the book came
about and a new afterword that helps teach us how to hope and act
in our unnerving world, she brings a new illumination to the
darkness of 2016 in an unforgettable new edition of this classic
book. Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author
of eighteen or so books on feminism, western and indigenous
history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering
and walking, hope and disaster, including the books Men Explain
Things to Me and Hope in the Dark, both also with Haymarket; a
trilogy of atlases of American cities; The Faraway Nearby; A
Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in
Disaster; A Field Guide to Getting Lost; Wanderlust: A History of
Walking; and River of Shadows, Eadweard Muybridge and the
Technological Wild West (for which she received a Guggenheim, the
National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and the Lannan
Literary Award). A product of the California public education
system from kindergarten to graduate school, she is a columnist at
Harper's and a regular contributor to the Guardian.
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