Free (DRM-free) Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit [Global Activism History Memoir]

[ATDrake]

Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities by award-winning author and activist Rebecca Solnit (Wikipedia), a contributing editor at Harper's Magazine, is her motivational memoir/mini-history of global activism experiences in recent decades cum analytical manifesto with derived life lessons on changing and improving the world, free for a limited time courtesy of publisher Haymarket Books (Wikipedia), an independent publisher specializing in quasi-academic titles mostly about social and economic issues, whose contributors include Canadian journalist Naomi Klein, linguist Noam Chomsky, the late historian Howard Zinn, and other notables.

This is an updated version of the original 2004 book, with a new foreword and afterword and covers political, environmental, and other issues. It's being offered free for the next few days either to coincide with the recent launch of their new website, or to go along with the current US election stuff; I'm not really sure which.

Currently free until November 15th, if the “5 days left” house ad I'm seeing is correct, directly @ the publisher's webstore (watermarked ePub/Mobi bundle available worldwide, but otherwise close enough to DRM-free in terms of not using encryption or restricting your ability to freely transfer/convert the files; requires account signup with valid email address—if you're not seeing the price as FREE, then you may need to add the coupon code FREEHOPEINTHEDARK into the cart when checking out)

Description
Solnit reminds us of how changed the world has been by the activism of the past five decades.

With Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit 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.

Originally published in 2004, now with a new foreword and afterword, Solnit’s influential book shines a light into the darkness of our time in an unforgettable new edition.