Description: "An account of the impact of organizers on United States history"--Provided by publisher.
Brief description:
Erik Loomis is an associate professor of history at the University of Rhode Island. He blogs at Lawyers, Guns, and Money (https: //www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/author/erik-loomis) on labor and environmental issues past and present. His work has also appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Dissent, and the New Republic. The author of Out of Sight and A History of America in Ten Strikes (both from The New Press) as well as Empire of Timber, he lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
Review Quotes: Praise for Organizing America:
"Historian Loomis profiles in this inspiring account 20 activists from the 17th century to today who each convey a specific lesson for political organizing. . . . Readers will be galvanized themselves."
-Publishers Weekly
"Bringing about significant social change is difficult; it requires determination, intelligence, empathy, courage--and organizers with all those qualities and more. Loomis has pulled together a compendium of short but fascinating and informative biographies of organizers throughout American history who fought for justice."
--Booklist