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New Book

My new book, based on this website, has just been published by Aventine Press. It is called:

At 80: An old bird's eye view of the year following
September 11, 2001

You can order the book from amazon.com or bn.com. Your local book store can order it from Ingram Book Company. If there is a problem getting the book locally, send me an e-mail with your home address.

Here are some early comments:


“There are no certain answers for these treacherous times,” writes Leon Wofsy. After a lifetime of progressive activism, Wofsy at age 80 decided to write an electronic journal that he could share with others similarly shaken by the events of Sept. 11, 2001. Historians will one day look back upon this remarkable journal to excavate the feelings and thoughts that few people dared express in the year that followed the terrorist attacks. Read it for its wise, personal and political engagement…

Ruth Rosen, author
The World Split Open (Penguin USA, 2001)


In the wake of 9/11, Leon Wofsy’s regular servings of honest, informed, and humane analysis nerved many of us to resist the militarist, imperialist, and repressive policies into which the Bush administration was driving a traumatized public.

Charles Sellers, author
The Market Revolution (Oxford University Press, 1991)