Please Don't Bomb The Suburbs

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Wimsatt weaves a first-person tour of America's cultural and political movements from 1985-2010. It's a story about love, growing up, a generation coming of age and a vision for the movement young people will create in the new decade. With humour, story-telling and historical insight, Wimsatt lays out a provocative vision for the next 25 years of personal and historical transformation.

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Please Don't Bomb the Suburbs is a book for middle-aging youth activists who are still passionate about fighting for a revolutionary new society, but recognize the importance of a visionary long-term, sustained movement in achieving change. Simply put, Billy Wimsatt has grown up. [...] And he wants us to grow up, too.
--Pete Redington, CounterPunch

Wimsatt's level of sincerity and enthusiasm is refreshing and bracing, and the book stands as a reminder that anybody who wants to help improve the world can find plenty of ways to get busy, and also have a great time doing it.
--Literary Kicks

Please Don't Bomb the Suburbs is a book for middle-aging youth activists who are still passionate about fighting for a revolutionary new society, but recognize the importance of a visionary long-term, sustained movement in achieving change. Simply put, Billy Wimsatt has grown up. [...] And he wants us to grow up, too.
--Pete Redington, CounterPunch

Wimsatt's level of sincerity and enthusiasm is refreshing and bracing, and the book stands as a reminder that anybody who wants to help improve the world can find plenty of ways to get busy, and also have a great time doing it.
--Literary Kicks

Author Bio

William Upski Wimsatt: William Upski Wimsatt is the author of two of the most successful underground classic books in a generation: Bomb The Suburbs and No More Prisons (more than 90,000 combined sold). A maverick graffiti artist, journalist, political and philanthropic organizer, Wimsatt has appeared in hundreds of publications and is a popular speaker at colleges and conferences. He founded the League of Young Voters, worked for Barack Obama in Ohio, coorganized the first ever briefing of social justice artists with the White House, and was honored as a "Visionary" by Utne Magazine, and "Power 30" by The Source. He lives in Brooklyn.