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)