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The Making of a Movement

By Rebecca Solnit, Tomdispatch.com. Posted February 15, 2005.


Adam Hochschild's new book is both a gripping history of a particular movement and a magnificent portrait of how activism works.

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Rebecca Solnit lives in a dense atmosphere of conspiracies, digressions and marginalia somewhere in San Francisco. She is the author of Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities and seven other books, including the award-winning River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West.

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