The Citizen Solution: How You Can Make a Difference

by Harry C. Boyte

Book Overview

Nationally known community organizer and activist Harry C. Boyte incites readers to join today's "citizen movement," offering practical tools for how we can change the face of America by focusing on issues close to home.

Targeting useful techniques for individuals to raise public consciousness and effectively motivate community-based groups, Boyte grounds his arguments in the country's tradition of "populism," demonstrating how mobilized...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0873516109
• ISBN13: 9780873516105
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Grass-roots organizational primer

The Citizen Solution is a grass-roots organizational primer, which helps the reader understand the theory of organizing apart from mobilizing people. Rich references to the history of American Democracy and the Freedom Movement make it an up-to-date review of American political history. The reader is introduced to the global Public Achievement Youth movement. Theories of public narrative and the one-on-one interview help the reader to develop effective organizational skills.

A Call to Citizenship

Harry Boyte has written an approachable book calling citizens to be engaged in our democracy. Using compelling real-life examples of citizen action that has prompted change, the book helps us to rethink the meaning of democracy as not something we elect for but that something that requires all citizens to build every day.