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The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear
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Average Rating:  out of 22 Reviews
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Price: $15.95
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Sale: $7.25
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Manufacturer: Basic Books
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EAN (European Article Number): 9780465041664
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Paul Loeb
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Publisher: Basic Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 361.2
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Publication Date: 2004-08-17
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Reading Level: 432
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Description: What keeps us going when times get tough? How do we act to create a more humane world, no matter how hard it seems? How do we offer models of involvement for our students when many feel their actions cannot matter? The Impossible Will Take a Little While gathers stories and essays of engagement that range across nations, eras, and political movements. These visionary and eloquent voices include Diane Ackerman, Sherman Alexie, Maya Angelou, Mary Catherine Bateson, Ariel Dorfman, Marian Wright Edelman, Eduardo Galeano, Susan Griffin, V‡clav Havel, Seamus Heaney, Tony Kushner, Jonathan Kozol, Bill McKibben, Nelson Mandela, Pablo Neruda, Henri Nouwen, Arundhati Roy, Desmond Tutu, Alice Walker, Cornel West, Terry Tempest Williams, and Howard Zinn. Their voices can help us all keep working for a better world, despite the obstacles. In The Impossible Will Take a Little While, a phrase borrowed from Billie Holliday, the editor of Soul of a Citizen brings together fifty stories and essays that range across nations, eras, wars, and political movements. Danusha Goska, an Indiana activist with a paralyzing physical disability, writes about overcoming political immobilization, drawing on her history with the Peace Corps and Mother Teresa. Vaclav Havel, the former president of the Czech Republic, finds value in seemingly doomed or futile actions taken by oppressed peoples. Rosemarie Freeney Harding recalls the music that sustained the civil rights movement, and Paxus Calta-Star recounts the powerful vignette of an 18-year-old who launched the overthrow of Bulgaria's dictatorship. Many of the essays are new, others classic works that continue to inspire. Together, these writers explore a path of heartfelt community involvement that leads beyond despair to compassion and hope. The voices collected in The Impossible Will Take a Little While will help keep us all working for a better world despite the obstacles.
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Customer Reviews
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Review Summary: Inspiring Collection! |
Date: 2008-10-27 |
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Details: This book is an amazing collection of stories that give hope for a better tomorrow. I just read it for the third time since 2006 and I would recommend it to everybody. From Nelson Mandela, Arundhati Roy, Alice Walker, to Desmond Tutu and others, the stories collected in "The Impossible Will Take a Little While" bring to the surface the best human beings can offer. |
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Review Summary: The Book I Needed In Days Like These |
Date: 2008-10-09 |
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Details: This is a great book for dark and challenging times. There is no end to negative news and revelations of ever more expressions of individual and collective human greed, violence, inhmanity, and destructive egoism. This book is a collection of essays celebrating and encouraging the positive. This book is the companion to Margaret Mead's advice to remember that a small group of passionate people can change the world. I Jpurchased the Kindle edition of this book, which is great for me. I can carry the book with me virtually everywhere and can refer to it as needed, reading an essay in just about any snippet of time. What an uplifting use of that time waiting in the doctor's office or for a prescription to be filled!! |
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Review Summary: The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear |
Date: 2008-06-05 |
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Details: The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear
I read this book several years back and was just recommending it again today. I was giving up hope for America every recovering from the abuse of power we were suffering under the BushII administration, I came away realizing that little things done by everyday people do make a difference.
I don't understand why one reviewer thinks this is a "leftist" book. It's about standing up for your rights as a citizen and learning from others who have done the same thing.
I guess people who buy into "be afraid, be very afraid, 9/11, 9/11... if we don't fight them over there they will come here.." won't like this book. But I think that is a very small fringe minority.
Anyone who believes in Democracy and is proud to be an American will understand that our contry and other country's struggles give us common ground. |
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Review Summary: Revied on The Impossible Will Take a Little While |
Date: 2007-02-13 |
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Details: Received on time and in a very well condition. Very Satified. |
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Review Summary: a much needed balm |
Date: 2007-01-16 |
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Details: Good things are possible, keep at it, it will take a while, but, it is not impossible! Even the review here at Amazon by Ms. Nina Rosenberg shows the uphill distance we have to go. Let's all keep walking, and even invite Ms Rosenberg along, maybe offer her a cup of tea. Anyhow, I loved this book and feel that we need to sometimes focus on what is good, and what HAS been accomplished and try to understand how it was acomplished so that we too may pave the way to greater peace, for all. Yes, not just for the USA, but for all citizens of the world. If you liked this book, I suspect you might also enjoy a book on non-violence called "nonviolence: twenty five lessons" by Mark Kurlansky.
Don't give up, keep at it, keep the faith, ward off despair! |
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