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Title: Great topic but more of the same,tired rhetoric
Review: Started the book with great promise. It is certainly a timely topic. And I agree with his premise that everything is impossible until someone takes the time to confront the issue. However, it becomes mired down with stereotypical examples of community activism. Thank God small groups of students from Ivy League schools exist to eliminate all the worlds ills. Generally, college student groups are not what I consider sources of great intellect and fact. There is an agenda. Hence the group. In my fifties, I appreciate their energy but question the content. Loeb gives great credit to these groups from the abolishment of Apartheid to the cure for the common cold (okay, my words, not his). And in writing this, I fall into his definition of cynic and can therefore be dismissed.Some of his examples were well thought out, but so many more were just too formula for me. I finished about half the book, and will go on to something else.
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