

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. Solnit reminds us of how changed the world has been by the activism of the past five decades. This new, significantly expanded edition covers, among other things, the political territory of America and the world after George Bush’s re-election.Īcclaimed 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. Many readers were so inspired by Solnit’s book that they bought multiple copies to give to friends. When the first edition of Hope in the Dark was published in mid-2004 it gained an instant cult audience.
