RaveThe Wall Street JournalInvigorating ... Ms. Penaluna tacks between rage and humor, biography and theory. Her writing is sharp and rousing. Her message is consoling and motivating. If this is what it means to think like a woman, sign me up.
Linda Hirshman
RaveThe Boston Globe... as Hirshman deftly documents, purity of principle can generate its own intolerance ... Hirshman turns these epistolary spats into page-turning reading, revealing backbiting and pettiness more at home in a teenage clique than in a moral crusade ... Hirshman’s book is a wonderful cataloging of Americans, white and Black, who devoted their lives to ending slavery ... offers a sobering reminder of the prejudice that often pollutes white activism. In our uncertain political moment, it shows how Americans historically reacted to a moral emergency. It should not surprise us that they brought their faults as well as their talents to the struggle. Perhaps their imperfect example can help us do better.
