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Power and Powerlessness
by Susan Rosenthal
237 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #05-0589; ISBN 1-4120-5691-8; US$18.23, C$20.96, EUR14.97, £10.48
"Reading this book is like taking the red pill in The Matrix. It opens your eyes to the truth."
Janna Comrie
About the Book
In POWER and Powerlessness, author and physician Susan Rosenthal explains that most people lack the healthy and fulfilling lives they deserve because they are kept powerless and mistakenly accept this state of affairs as natural or self-inflicted.
Written for a popular audience, POWER and Powerlessness answers four basic questions: What's going on? How did this happen? Why do we put up with it? What will it take to change the world?
Reviews
Patricia Campbell, Independent Workers' Union (Ireland):
Rosenthal's book will inspire all those who long for a better world. She has demonstrated a deep insight and knowledge into the workings of the system and her conviction that we can transform powerlessness into power will motivate many.
Howard Zinn, author, A People's History of the United States
I think you've written something powerful and important. And I like your style, clear, approachable. I hope it will be widely circulated.
Sophie Hand, International Socialist Review, Sept.-Oct. 2006:
POWER and Powerlessness insists quite clearly that, contrary to everything we are taught, there are no individual solutions. Societal problems demand societal solutions, and such solutions can only be achieved through organization and cooperation - in other words, through a return to our basic humanity...This book has the potential to reach the growing numbers of people who know that something is wrong and who are seeking ways to engage in serious, transformational, revolutionary change.
Christopher Shelley:
An uncommon work...penetrates beneath the surface...well researched and gripping ...deserves to be widely read.
About the Author
Susan Rosenthal has been practicing medicine for more than 30 years and has written many articles on the relationship between health and social relationships. She is also the author of Striking Flint: Genora (Johnson) Dollinger Remembers the 1936-1937 General Motors Sit-Down Strike (1996) and Market Madness and Mental Illness: The Crisis in Mental Health Care (1999). She is a member of the National Writers Union, UAW Local 1981.
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