The Quiet Before
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'The Quiet Before is a fascinating and important exploration of how ideas that change the world incubate and spread.' Steven Pinker
'Filled with insightful analysis and colourful storytelling... Rarely does a book give you a new way of looking at social change. This one does.' Walter Isaacson
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How do movements begin? Beckerman looks to history, drawing lessons from a dozen social movements.
In particular, he explores the communications tools (petitions, zines, private chat rooms) that movements have used over the centuries to organize their thinking and plan their actions. Traveling from Manchester to Moscow to Minneapolis, the reader is reminded that our work now is part of a chain of history.
We are not the first, nor will we be the last. But we can learn from the past even as we confront an uncertain future.
From Jacob's list on social change strategy.
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