You're Not Powerless
The Crisis of Agency and How We Reclaim It Together
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You’re Not Powerless confronts a feeling millions of Americans share: that the societal problems we face are too big, and we are just too small. Drawing on fifteen years of reporting, Vox journalist Rachel Cohen Booth details how we came to doubt that anything we do will pay off. For a generation, we’ve been told that the system is too rigged for individual effort to matter, that only sweeping policy can save us, and that if you’re not despairing, you’re not paying attention. Booth argues that this crisis of agency is not just a symptom of what’s broken in our lives and our politics but one of its root causes, and one we have the power to change.
Through vivid storytelling and surprising research, Booth reveals the two mindsets keeping us stuck: there’s go-it-alone bootstrapping on one side, and waiting for the perfect law on the other. Her solution is “connected individualism,” where taking charge of our own lives and showing up for each other are part of the same project. And she shows this isn’t an obscure ideal. Most Americans already believe it, and people across the country are putting it into practice. From neighbors who trade hours of help, to schools that let kids practice independence, to campaigns that have opened jobs long closed to workers without college degrees, Booth spotlights ordinary people building and strengthening agency in one another. Agency in the modern age, she writes, comes not from ignoring structural barriers but from acting together within them and, in time, pushing past them.
Both challenging and hopeful, You're Not Powerless shows what each of us can do to reclaim our agency, and why the larger change we want depends on it.
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“Humans yearn for agency, for the ability to architect their own futures. Rachel Cohen Booth’s vitally important book provides crucial insights on an under-examined question: how we can design our civic and public lives to better enable people to build agency with others.”—Hahrie Han, MacArthur Fellow, author of Undivided, and inaugural director of the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University
“Rachel Cohen Booth’s You’re Not Powerless achieves that rarity of rarities, a triple play: It is at once a volume of self-help, community help and national help. With wide-ranging reporting and trenchant analysis, Booth documents the personal, political, structural and social psychological crisis of agency that afflicts millions of young Americans and many of their elders as well. . . . a notable addition to the lamentably small shelf of books that address the multi-dimensional crisis of power and purpose that vexes American life and short-changes American lives.”—Harold Meyerson, editor-at-large of The American Prospect
“Does anything you do matter? Millions of people have come to believe that the problems they face are too big to confront: What is one person in the face of climate change, the housing crisis, or a toxic political culture? You’re Not Powerless doesn't shy away from how hard the world is, but unlike many of her peers, Rachel Cohen Booth refuses to descend into nihilism. In a propulsive, humane, and deeply persuasive book—which takes you from the author’s own pregnancy to refugees defying simple narratives of victimization, Booth rejects the bootstrapping fantasies of the right and the paralyzing fatalism of the left. Instead, this book is a bracing reminder that the world can be changed and that we have the power to change it.”—Jerusalem Demsas, founder and editor-in-chief of The Argument
“Our politics too often feels stuck; our culture torn apart by polarization, isolation, and whatever gets served up by algorithms. Rachel Booth’s You’re Not Powerless comes not a moment too late. It’s a necessary and compelling reminder that despite the headwinds, we still have the opportunity—and obligation—to think creatively, act boldly, and create a better society from the bottom up. Anyone who has ever felt like the system is stacked against them needs to read this book.”—Patrick T. Brown, fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center
“I am not usually a fan of books (too long), but this one was good and about a topic, constructive civic engagement, that gets relatively little attention.”—Matt Bruenig, founder of People’s Policy Project
“Rachel Cohen Booth’s You’re Not Powerless achieves that rarity of rarities, a triple play: It is at once a volume of self-help, community help and national help. With wide-ranging reporting and trenchant analysis, Booth documents the personal, political, structural and social psychological crisis of agency that afflicts millions of young Americans and many of their elders as well. . . . a notable addition to the lamentably small shelf of books that address the multi-dimensional crisis of power and purpose that vexes American life and short-changes American lives.”—Harold Meyerson, editor-at-large of The American Prospect
“Does anything you do matter? Millions of people have come to believe that the problems they face are too big to confront: What is one person in the face of climate change, the housing crisis, or a toxic political culture? You’re Not Powerless doesn't shy away from how hard the world is, but unlike many of her peers, Rachel Cohen Booth refuses to descend into nihilism. In a propulsive, humane, and deeply persuasive book—which takes you from the author’s own pregnancy to refugees defying simple narratives of victimization, Booth rejects the bootstrapping fantasies of the right and the paralyzing fatalism of the left. Instead, this book is a bracing reminder that the world can be changed and that we have the power to change it.”—Jerusalem Demsas, founder and editor-in-chief of The Argument
“Our politics too often feels stuck; our culture torn apart by polarization, isolation, and whatever gets served up by algorithms. Rachel Booth’s You’re Not Powerless comes not a moment too late. It’s a necessary and compelling reminder that despite the headwinds, we still have the opportunity—and obligation—to think creatively, act boldly, and create a better society from the bottom up. Anyone who has ever felt like the system is stacked against them needs to read this book.”—Patrick T. Brown, fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center
“I am not usually a fan of books (too long), but this one was good and about a topic, constructive civic engagement, that gets relatively little attention.”—Matt Bruenig, founder of People’s Policy Project
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