The Impossible Will Take a Little While
β Scribed by Loeb, Paul Rogat
- Book ID
- 110485832
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 388 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780465038589
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
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...
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