Paul Loeb presents 'The Impossible Will Take a Little While'

Third Place Books welcomes veteran organizer and social change analyst Paul Loeb for a conversation on the new edition of his book, The Impossible Will Take a Little While.

First published in 2004, The Impossible Will Take a Little While gathers seventy-plus voices—Nelson Mandela, Maya Angelou, Howard Zinn, Heather Cox Richardson, Bill McKibben, and Jesmyn Ward amongst them—describing how people faced impossible odds and kept going anyway.

Completely revised to speak directly to our challenging time, this new edition weaves together classic stories of hope with inspiring new entries, including Loeb’s powerful essays and introductions.

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About The Impossible Will Take a Little While. . .

“A magnificent anthology celebrates hope, guts, and the power of taking action.” —Oprah Magazine

In a world where each day can bring new reasons for outrage or despair, Paul Loeb answers with stories of hope, inspiration, and raw courage from heroes of world-changing political movements. In this comprehensively updated edition, Loeb helps us keep acting for change whatever the odds.

The Impossible Will Take a Little While shows what it's like to go up against Goliath and win—on battlefields from the 2024 South Korean coup, Putin’s prisons, South African apartheid, American slavery, and defeatism about climate change. Authors include Nelson Mandela, Alexei Navalny, Bill McKibben, Diane Ackerman, Jesmyn Ward, Howard Zinn, Heather Cox Richardson, Alice Walker, Sherman Alexie, Vaclav Havel, Paul Hawken, Rutger Bregman, Bill Moyers, Audre Lorde, Mary Pipher, Tony Kushner, Maya Angelou, Pablo Neruda, Terry Tempest Williams, Desmond Tutu, and fifty-two other powerful voices.

Without minimizing the obstacles, their stories inspire hope to keep on pushing for what we believe.

Paul Rogat Loeb’s five books, including The Impossible and Soul of a Citizen, have sold 350,000 copies. He has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, AARP Bulletin, Redbook, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Nation, Huffington Post, and Raw Story, and has appeared on NBC, ABC, CNN, PBS, Fox News, NPR, and the BBC. He founded two national organizations reaching over ten million voters. He lives in Seattle.

About Third Place Books

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