The Most Radical Thing You Can Do: The Best Political Essays From Orion Magazine

by Gretel Ehrlich

272 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2020

About the author

Gretel Ehrlich is an American travel writer, novelist, essayist, and poet born on a horse ranch near Santa Barbara, California and educated at both Bennington College in Vermont and UCLA film school. After working in film for 10 years and following the death of a loved one, she began writing full-time in 1978 while living on a Wyoming ranch where she had been filming. Her first book, The Solace of Open Spaces, is a collection of essays describing her love of the region.

Reviews

[Sue · Rating 5 out of 5]

A collection of essays from the Orion magazine. Powerful, provocative, both hopeful and depressing.

[Rachel · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a wonderful book for anyone working to make change to read. The essays are varied -- all well written from so many different perspectives. I highly recommend it to all active change-makers!