'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
