PRAISE for Writings of Susan Griffin

Unique. . . fresh and probing. . .strikes at the very heart of America’s cruel paradoxes.
With a light yet devastating touch, Griffin charts our continued “wrestling” with democratic ideals —her incisive search for the soul of democracy stirs up pride, despair, and hope.”
— BOOKLIST

Susan Griffin has removed the rhetorical clichés from democracy and revealed a breathing, sentient angel of wisdom now held captive by tyranny, money, and our misplaced faith in authority. This is nothing less than cultural poetry steeped in history and heart.”
— PAUL HAWKEN, Author of Blessed Unrest

Susan Griffin’s superb prose reveals democracy not as a distant abstraction but as a live, inspiring, and difficult presence shaping us every day, an angel all Americans wrestle with.”
— GEORGE LAKOFF
Author of Whose Freedom? The Battle Over America’s Most Important Idea and Moral Politics

A bomb may kill hundreds of people, but a book can change millions — think of common sense, Das Kapital, Uncle Tom’s Cabin or the Gulag Archipelago. To that energizing company add Transforming Terror. — PETER COYOTE, Actor, Author of Sleeping Where I Fall.

A catalyst to radial transformation.” —DEIDRE ENGLISH
Director,Felker Magazine center, UC School of Journalism, former editor of Mother Jones

In the twenty-fifth century, when historians reflect back on this trauma for the entire Earth Community, Susan Griffin will celebrated as a light that led us forward.  She has a stature comparable to that of Hannah Arendt, of Lewis Mumford, of Matilda Joslyn Gage and I am certain that people will be pouring over her books for centuries.” — BRIAN SWIMME  author of The Universe Story