{"product_id":"all-is-not-lost-isbn-9780807006085","title":"All Is Not Lost","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn uplifting look at how organizers in the past have successfully leveraged crises into emancipatory politics, and a plea for continued progressive movement building in our tumultuous social climate\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the climate apocalypse and COVID-19 to double-digit unemployment to Donald Trump and the rise of far-right white nationalists—disasters are everywhere we look.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile these disasters often leave us feeling hopeless and withdrawn, scholar Alex Zamalin argues that pessimism cannot be the only response. Silence and inaction only perpetuate mass suffering and inequality. Instead, \u003ci\u003eAll Is Not Lost\u003c\/i\u003e suggests that following every crisis emerges new political opportunity for changing our politics and everyday lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBlending intellectual history, biography, and political critique, Zamalin offers 20 specific lessons for our present moment, turning to moments in history to demonstrate how various figures in the past have successfully leveraged struggles into sources of political action and freedom. The lessons—on how to resist, organize, treat others, think politically, memorialize, dream, write, occupy, build, and act—all build toward one truth: though disaster is something we cannot prevent from arriving, we can control how we confront it and what we build in its place. Using examples from the 17th century to the present, \u003ci\u003eAll Is Not Lost\u003c\/i\u003e reminds readers to not back down in the face of crisis and offers radical lessons of continued resistance and movement building to create a successful progressive coalition.1\u003cbr\u003eDisasters Are Opportunities\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2\u003cbr\u003eResist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3\u003cbr\u003eTake Back the Streets\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4\u003cbr\u003ePatriotism Isn’t the Answer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5\u003cbr\u003eRedefine Ideals to Meet Your Democratic Aspirations\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6\u003cbr\u003ePoliticize Truth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7\u003cbr\u003eImagine Utopia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8\u003cbr\u003eQuestion Elites\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e9\u003cbr\u003eMake Peace\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e10\u003cbr\u003eBuild a Democratic Society\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e11\u003cbr\u003eOrganize\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e12\u003cbr\u003eMake Political Art\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e13\u003cbr\u003ePaint a Bloody Picture\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e14\u003cbr\u003ePoliticize Grief\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e15\u003cbr\u003eCreate a Counterculture\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e16\u003cbr\u003eRevolutionize Identity\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e17\u003cbr\u003eMake an Angry Spectacle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e18\u003cbr\u003eEmbrace Interconnectedness\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e19\u003cbr\u003eEmbrace Participatory Democracy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e20\u003cbr\u003eThink Historically\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e“A [fiery], earnest effort to inspire progressives to regain the political initiative now apparently firmly in conservative hands.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In the wake of the wreckage of the Trump era and pandemic, relief is widespread, but so too is a sense of hopelessness. This book is a call to action, a must-read.”\u003cbr\u003e—Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of \u003ci\u003eNot “a Nation of Immigrants”: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Many of these remarkable stories from our history will be new to readers—which is sad in a way, since they are important chapters that have been ignored (or erased). But it’s a joy in another way, because their fresh power will inspire many to action!”\u003cbr\u003e—Bill McKibben, author of \u003ci\u003eThe End of Nature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Pondering those who have resisted in our history, Alex Zamalin proposes, is the first step—after COVID and Donald Trump—to making sure that the center and right are not the only forces to reap the benefits of the ongoing American crisis. This is a thrilling read for our times.”\u003cbr\u003e—Samuel Moyn, Yale University, author of \u003ci\u003eHumane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“If, as Alex Zamalin says, ‘radical ideas are most palatable when they’re boldly announced and proudly defended in the mainstream,’ then this book will be their vehicle. \u003ci\u003eAll Is Not Lost\u003c\/i\u003e is a visionary romp through the history we need for a transformational, just, and egalitarian politics. Vivid, inspiring, and accessible, this book gives us heroes who know that ‘to change what feels familiar, you have to make a scene.’ It should be read by everyone.”\u003cbr\u003e—Bonnie Honig, Brown University, author of \u003ci\u003eShell-Shocked: Feminist Criticism After Trump\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In this place of darkness and disaster, Alex Zamalin gives us a guide to overcoming. Written with a great heart and a cool head, he maps what can, what should, be done to build a new world from the shards of the old. This is a call to change within our reach, a map to revolution in the everyday.”\u003cbr\u003e—Anne Norton, University of Pennsylvania, author of \u003ci\u003eLeo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Filled with inspiring heroes and inspiriting examples, this appeal to make a better world offers an assertive call to seize the time. Combining ethics and idealism with grounded strategies for democratic mobilization, the book presents evocative and compelling guidance about how to organize and identifies ways to communicate without apology.”\u003cbr\u003e—Ira Katznelson, author of \u003ci\u003eWhen Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlex Zamalin\u003c\/b\u003e is the director of the African American Studies Program and an associate professor of political science at the University of Detroit Mercy. He is the author of numerous books, including, most recently, \u003ci\u003eAgainst Civility: The Hidden Racism in Our Obsession with Civility\u003c\/i\u003e. His areas of expertise include African American political thought, American politics, and political theory. Zamalin’s essays and reviews have appeared in various edited book collections and in peer-reviewed journals such as \u003ci\u003eNew Political Science\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eContemporary Political Theory\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePolitical Theory\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWomen’s Studies Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302937120997,"sku":"NP9780807006085","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780807006085.jpg?v=1767721272","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/all-is-not-lost-isbn-9780807006085","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}