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What Two Can Do : Sam & Mandy Stellman's Crusade for Social Justice

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To imagine that two pro-active people who effectively spent their lives championing social justice causes should be relatively unknown to the general population. Thank goodness this book has been written so we can all know how taking action can pay off in changes in laws, in habits and in the general climate for equality. A true inspiration. The book reads like a biography of two extraordinary people who could in fact be any one of us, and as a handbook for making change, for being responsible and accountable. It is an important document and I am going to see to it that several of my friends and family receive copies.

So you CAN fight city hall after all. And win! How encouraging to read about two ordinary people who get extraordinary results by simply writing letters (to the right people), by creatively directing their anger, by using humor and persuasion--and by occasionally employing humiliation and the threat of a lawsuit--to convince those in power to clean up their act. Inspiring, empowering, and so interesting to read. There's hope for all of us.

What Two Can Do is a pageturner. The author succeeds in making a biography read like a novel. This book deserves to be bought and read by hordes of people, even those who have never heard of Sam and Mandy Stellman, on the basis of the morality they exemplify and on the writing model in which their story is couched.