"No writer has better understood the mix of fear and possibility, peril and exuberance that\'s marked this new millennium." --Bill McKibben "An elegant reminder that activist victories are easily forgotten, and that they often come in extremely unexpected, roundabout ways." -- The New Yorker A book as powerful and influential as Rebecca Solnit\'s Men Explain Things to Me , her Hope in the Dark was written to counter the despair of radicals at. "No writer has better understood the mix of fear and possibility, peril and exuberance that\'s marked this new millennium." --Bill McKibben "An elegant reminder that activist victories are easily forgotten, and that they often come in extremely unexpected, roundabout ways." -- The New Yorker A book as powerful and influential as Rebecca Solnit\'s Men Explain Things to Me , her Hope in the Dark was written to counter the despair of radicals at