Powerful, thoughtful essays, combined with generous selections from
great contemporary writers, explore the issue of bullying at levels
from the personal to the political. Includes selections from Katha
Pollitt, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Walker, Donald Hall, Charles Baxter,
Jim Harrison and more.
Quotes:
“A unique and wonderful book—filled with the courage of a moralist,
the creativity of a writer, and the passion of a great soul.”—Reginald
Gibbons
“No book I have reviewed in the last ten years deserves a wider readership than this one.”—Catholic New Times
“In
her ground breaking new book . . . Bly uses the poems, essays, and
short stories of America's preeminent writers to illustrate the
bullying attitudes we've accepted through the years. . .. At the heart of
the book is Bly's belief that because we have the tools to reconnect
with our ethical selves and question unethical behavior, we all should
begin to do just that.”—Minnesota Monthly
“Carol Bly is a one
woman army fighting moral drift and the bullies of the world. Her book
will inspire others to join the fight . . .. Her analysis is complex,
insightful, and hopeful.”—Mary Pipher, author of Reviving Ophelia
“An
amazingly generous volume . . .. Tough as she is on the 'evil jerks,' she
offers a real chance for them to change. I've seen this transformation
happen just often enough not to dismiss it as a dream; perhaps this
book will be a primer, a textbook, for helping it to happen much more
often.”—Bill McKibben, Hungry Mind Review
“This book is a
written substitute for time with Carol Bly. . .. This is not a book for
which there will be indifferent reactions. Read it, and you will have
strong responses. one of mine is to recommend that you purchase this
volume, soon!”—Reader's Corner, Minnesota Council on Family Relations
“Changing
the Bully Who Rules the World isn't a book to be simply filed on a
shelf in the family library or returned to the library. It's a book to
be read and reread, underlined and shared. It demands thought. It
assumes discussion and action.”—Re-Imagining Newsletter ( from the
United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities)
