{"product_id":"hope-in-the-dark-untold-histories-wild-possibilities-9781608465767","title":"Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"One of the Best Books of the 21st Century.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--\u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo writer has better understood the mix of fear and possibility, peril and exuberance that's marked this new millennium.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--Bill McKibben \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn elegant reminder that activist victories are easily forgotten, and that they often come in extremely unexpected, roundabout ways.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--\u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA book as powerful and influential as Rebecca Solnit's \u003cem\u003eMen Explain Things to Me\u003c\/em\u003e, her \u003cem\u003eHope in the Dark \u003c\/em\u003ewas 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWriter, historian, and activist \u003cstrong\u003eRebecca Solnit\u003c\/strong\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eMen Explain Things to Me\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eHope in the Dark\u003c\/em\u003e, both also with Haymarket; a trilogy of atlases of American cities; \u003cem\u003eThe Faraway Nearby\u003c\/em\u003e;\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eA Field Guide to Getting Lost\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eWanderlust: A History of Walking\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003eRiver of Shadows, Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West\u003c\/em\u003e (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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rebecca Solnit\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Haymarket Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/15\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.40h x 5.30w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781608465767\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWriter, historian, and activist \u003cb\u003eRebecca Solnit\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eMen Explain Things to Me\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHope in the Dark\u003c\/i\u003e, both also with Haymarket; a trilogy of atlases of American cities; \u003ci\u003eThe Faraway Nearby\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eA Field Guide to Getting Lost\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eWanderlust: A History of Walking\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eRiver of Shadows, Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West\u003c\/i\u003e (for which she received a Guggenheim, the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award). 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