This collection of forward-thinking essays on all aspects of life is apparently out of print. Fortunately, copies are still available on Amazon and similar sites. We are tackling the well-organized chapters in our liberal church's book discussion group, and are finding much rich material to discuss, question, and defend. Essentially, the collection urges us to look out of the box and employ intelligent solutions to old problems of ignorance, intolerance, poverty, sexism, racism, and all the other "isms" that separate us. To heal, restore, and transform...to be part of the solution, with honor and integrity, as we embrace the "global soul of this planet."
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Imagine: What America Could Be in the 21st Century Hardcover – November 18, 2000
by
Marianne Williamson
(Editor)
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More than thirty distinguished contributors share their thoughts, beliefs, and concrete suggestions on how to create a brighter, more enriching America in the twenty-first century.
- Print length320 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherDaybreak Books
- Publication dateNovember 18, 2000
- Dimensions6.25 x 1.25 x 9.25 inches
- ISBN-101579543022
- ISBN-13978-1579543020
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- Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2011I just want the company to know even if the quality was not good. Amazon was quick to refund the money satifying the customer which is a good thing. I am very happy to buy from Amazon and will continue to purchase from them. They are customer people and whenever there is a problem they clear it up quickly. Thank you very much Amazon.
- Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2016I gave this book to myself as a Christmas gift 10 or more years ago. It is full of intelligent, insightful visionary essays about creating a future that realizes the best potential of mankind through re-imagined organizational changes in communities across the country. I recently order additional copies to give to friends and acquaintances who are open to its inspirational ideas.
- Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2016The essays in this book are great and very thought provoking. I would highly recommend it.
- Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2000For anyone who, like me, has gobbled up the works of writers like Deepak Chopra, Neale Donald Walsch, Thomas Moore, Caroline Myss, James Redfield and Barbara Marx Hubbard, this book is a must read. It includes essays by each of these authors and many more of equal stature. In the essays, the writers take the ideas and principles they have developed over the years and apply them in answering the question: "In the realm of highest possibilities, what could America look like in 50 years?" The result is a comprehensive, readable, light-filled blueprint for America's future. Some of the essays are poetic, lyrical. Others are grounded in hard hitting facts and statistics that will blow your mind. (See Paul Hawken's essay) Make no mistake. These are not airy-fairy essays recycling the previous works of these writers. They are clear, disciplined, thoughtful responses to the question posed. In fact, I believe the essays in "Imagine" may very well be the best work of many of these writers. I was blown away by what they delivered in this volume. Hats off to the editor, Marianne Williamson for assembling this phenomenal group of writers and for her skill in weaving these beautiful essays together.
- Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2002We can all agree that the world would be a nicer place with more personal connection, a real sense of community, freedom to pursue dreams, security to safeguard those dreams, pluralistic tolerance, etc, etc. I do. But in a haphazard series of essys, beyond platitudes and some bad science fiction, I see little in the way of real thinking about the problems that confront the world, or well-reasoned, rigorously analytical responses to those problems. Instead, they range from the laughable to the dangerous--see one author proposing a monolithic Department of Peace with millions of officers devoted to everything from crime to regulation of interpersonal communication to domestic life to workplace interactions. How can somebody who claims allegience to personal freedom cry out for something so Orwellian? These liberal-minded egalitarian essayists would invest more unilateral power in government than John Ashcroft ever had wet dreams about.
The prose, often stilted, blowsy, pretentious or oblivious to its own ridiculousness, is workmanlike. To those that seek out the book, the pronouncements will be comforting. The implementation of its ideas--imagine!--will not be.
- Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2009What a wonderful book. I have to admit, there are some areas of the book, and some ideas in the book that I don't necessarily agree with, but at least these authors are talking. They are beginning a conversation that is long over due.
- Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2001This book is an entertaining read - if you want to know what a handful of elitist, out of touch Euphorians think America should be by the middle of this century. Otherwise, use it as a door stop, boat anchor, or birdcage liner.
Seriously, there is little of interest for the thoughtful reader, one who is reasonably well educated and knowledgeable about history, politics, and human nature. A major flaw of this book is that there is little actual diversity of thought and opinion, most of the essays could have been written by the same person and we never would have known the difference, so similar are the authors' world views. Why weren't other voices added, such as Colin Powell on foreign affairs or Alan Greenspan on economic matters? Instead we get this syrupy goo, the literary equivalent of "can't we all just have a group hug and sing 'Kumbaya' together?". Sorry, but the world, and our role in it, demands a more serious, realistic, and sober minded approach. The problems we face heading into this new century, issues like racial tensions, terrorism, and the struggle of societies trying to preserve their cultures and values against the relentless march of the high speed cyber-economy cannot be resolved with airy platitudes and Utopian dreams. After all, I too can imagine what the world will look like in 50 years, and while there will undoubtedly be improvements, especially in technology, the basics of human nature will change not one bit. We will still have to deal with tyrants, political and religious fanatics, criminals, drug and alcohol abuse, corruption, ethnic strife, and a host of other problems, none of which can be solved with a pie in the sky "Can't we all just get along" approach.



