Background
Loeb, Paul Rogat was born on July 4, 1952 in Berkeley, California, United States. Son of Yosal Rogat and Magd (Kosches) Rogat Loeb Waingrow.
(Challenging prevailing media stereotypes, Generation at t...)
Challenging prevailing media stereotypes, Generation at the Crossroads explores the beliefs and choices of the students who came of age in the 1980s and 1990s. For seven years, at over a hundred campuses in thirty states, Paul Loeb asked students about the values they held. He examines their concepts of responsibility, the links they draw between present and future, and how they view themselves in relation to the larger human community in which they live. He brings us a range of voices, from "I'm not that kind of person, " to "I had to take a stand." Loeb looks at how the rest of us can serve young people as better role models, and given them courage and vision to help build a better world. This insightful book explores the culture of withdrawal that dominated American campuses through most of the eighties. He locates its roots in historical ignorance, relentless individualism, mistrust of social movements, and a general isolation from urgent realities. He examines why a steadily increasing minority has begun to take on critical public issues, whether environmental activism, apartheid, hunger and homelessness, affordable education, or racial and sexual equity. Loeb looks at individuals who have overcome precisely the barriers he has described, and how their journeys can become models. The generational choices he explores will shape our common future.
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Loeb, Paul Rogat was born on July 4, 1952 in Berkeley, California, United States. Son of Yosal Rogat and Magd (Kosches) Rogat Loeb Waingrow.
He graduated from Stanford University and subsequently attended New York"s New School for Social Research and worked actively to end the Vietnam War.
He also began his writing and speaking career during this time. Loeb"s writings have appeared in numerous newspapers and journals. His first book, Nuclear Culture, examined the daily life of atomic weapons workers at the Hanford site in Tri-Cities, Washington.
Hope In Hard Times portrayed ordinary Americans involved in grassroots peace activism.
He has also written books examining student activism at universities, and his book Soul of a Citizen aimed to inspire citizen activists. In 2010 Street Martin"s Press released a wholly updated edition of Soul of a Citizen, which now has 130,000 copies in print between the two editions
His writing has received much attention and been cited in Congressional debates.
He has been interviewed hundreds of times for radio, television and print media. He"s also lectured at numerous college campuses and national conferences.
In January 2002, his talk at the annual provost"s conference of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities inspired the American Democracy Project, which now exists on 200 college campuses.
Loeb is a Huffington Post blogger and lives in Seattle, Washington.
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Author: Nuclear Culture: Living and Working at the World's Largest Atomic Complex, 1982, 86, Hope in Hard Times: America's Peace Movement and the Reagan Era, 1987, Generation at the Crossroads: Apathy and Action on the American Campus, 1994. Editor Liberation magazine, 1974-1976. Consultant editor Nuclear X-Change, 1983-1986.
Associate editor Clinton St. Quarterly, 1985-1991. Contributor to numerous publications including New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Psychology Today, Mother Jones, Utne Reader, Village Voice, International Herald Tribune.
Loeb"s work offers an often alternative look at current social issues, from poverty and taxation and budget priorities to criminal justice, environmentalism, and citizen activism.
Member Center for Ethical Leadership.