Grace Lee Boggs: The Next American Revolution

As she approaches her 96th Birthday in June, Grace Lee Boggs is a living legend. As a life-long politically engaged person, she certainly deserves the distinction, but not the assumption that sometimes trails that term – there is nothing nostalgic or static about Boggs. Her continuing involvement with current social change and her bold thinking about the history of social movements engage the reader of her new book, The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century (University of California Press), with critical insights throughout. This is hardly a book of stale phrases and empty bombast.