265 books
—
275 voters


“To understand your country you must love it. To love it you must, in a sense, accept it. To accept it as it is, however, is to betray it. To accept your country without betraying it, you must love it for that in which it shows what it might become. America - this monument to the genius of ordinary men and women, this place where hope becomes capacity, this long, halting turn of the no into the yes - needs citizens who love it enough to reimagine and remake it.”
― The Future of American Progressivism: An Initiative for Political and Economic Reform
― The Future of American Progressivism: An Initiative for Political and Economic Reform

“They [Americans] believe that the terrors of vast problems yield to the effects of many small solutions.
Use little things to break big things, says Saint Paul, describing an essential feature of the psychology of hope.”
― The Future of American Progressivism: An Initiative for Political and Economic Reform
Use little things to break big things, says Saint Paul, describing an essential feature of the psychology of hope.”
― The Future of American Progressivism: An Initiative for Political and Economic Reform

“Seen from that future time, when every commodity the human mind could imagine would flow from the industrial horn of plenty in dizzy abundance, this would seem a scanty, shoddy, cramped moment indeed, choked with shadows, redeemed only by what it caused to be created.
Seen from plenty, now would be hard to imagine. It would seem not quite real, an absurd time when, for no apparent reason, human beings went without things easily within the power of humanity to supply and lives did not flower as it was obvious they could.”
― Red Plenty
Seen from plenty, now would be hard to imagine. It would seem not quite real, an absurd time when, for no apparent reason, human beings went without things easily within the power of humanity to supply and lives did not flower as it was obvious they could.”
― Red Plenty

An instinct for great books since 1974.

Official group for developers on Goodreads to coordinate and build cool apps. For general Goodreads support, please visit our help page.
Andrew’s 2022 Year in Books
Take a look at Andrew’s Year in Books. The good, the bad, the long, the short—it’s all here.
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Andrew
Lists liked by Andrew