“One way to change the world is to be yourself. This is harder than it sounds. Gal Beckerman, one of our most thoughtful commentators on the soul of politics, appealingly invites us to learn from those more courageous than ourselves. Along the way we learn some history that we should know and find ourselves by the end not only instructed but wiser.”
“Urgent, wise, and immensely compelling, Gal Beckerman’s How to Be a Dissident illuminates an inspiring gallery of history’s independent thinkers, their lives both reassurance and exhortation in these challenging times. Everyone should read this book.”
ABOUT
Gal Beckerman is a staff writer at The Atlantic.
A former editor of the magazine’s book section, he also worked for six years at the New York Times Book Review. Gal is the author of the widely acclaimed The Quiet Before, which was a Times Notable book, and When They Come for Us, We’ll Be Gone, which won the Sami Rohr Prize and was named a best book of the year by The New Yorker and The Washington Post.
