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25 Best “Transformational”
Books of the
1980s
I. INTRODUCTORY NOTE FROM
EDITOR MARK SATIN
A wonderful thing happened in the 1980s: Thousands of writers and
activists began developing what many of them called a “transformational
alternative” to the traditional left and right.
What they wanted was to change
society fundamentally -- not by revolution, but by encouraging each of us to pay
attention to such foundational issues as the scale of our institutions, our
relationship to nature, and our deep-seated attitudes and values.
Although transformational writers and activists typically received scant
attention from the national media, they had a salutary effect at the grassroots
level (see, e.g., the collaboratively produced “Ten Key Values” statement),
and helped lay the groundwork for the radical middle politics of our own
time.
All blue links below will take you to that book's page on
Amazon.com.
Books
preceded by a star (*) have won one of our annual Radical Middle Political
Book Awards; see HERE for an annotated list of
all winners from 1980 through 2009.
So, enjoy!
II. THE
TWENTY-FIVE BEST
* Walter Truett Anderson, ed., Rethinking
Liberalism
* Thomas Berry, The
Dream of the Earth
* Lester Brown and the staff of Worldwatch Institute, State
of the World (annual
editions from 1984-2000s - our Book Award winner was published in 1988)
Fritjof Capra, The
Turning Point: Science, Society, and the Rising Culture
* Herman Daly and John Cobb, Jr., For
the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the Environment, and
a Sustainable Future
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Duane Elgin, Voluntary
Simplicity: Toward a Way of Life That Is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich
* Marilyn Ferguson, The
Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in Our Time
* Marilyn French, Beyond
Power: On Women, Men, and Morals
Willis Harman, Global
Mind Change: The Promise of the 21st Century
* Paul Hawken, James Ogilvy, and Peter Schwartz, Seven
Tomorrows: Toward a Voluntary History
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* Hazel Henderson, The Politics of the Solar
Age: Alternatives to Economics
Jane Jacobs, Cities
and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life
* Jane Mansbridge, Beyond
Adversary Democracy
Corinne McLaughlin and Gordon Davidson, Builders
of the Dawn: Community Lifestyles in a Changing World
Toni Morrison, Beloved
(novel; reviewed by us HERE)
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John Naisbitt and Patricia Aburdene, Megatrends:
Ten New Directions Transforming Our Lives
* Charles Peters, How
Washington Really Works
Thomas Peters and Robert Waterman, In
Search of Excellence: Lessons from Americas's Best-Run Companies
Michael Phillips and Salli Rasberry, Honest
Business: A Superior Strategy for Starting and Running a Business
Jeremy Rifkin, Entropy:
A New World View
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Kirkpatrick Sale, Human
Scale
Andrew Schmookler, Out
of Weakness: Healing the Wounds That Drive Us to War
* Charlene Spretnak and Fritjof Capra, Green
Politics: The Global Promise
* Robert Theobald, The
Rapids of Change: Social Entrepreneurship in Turbulent Times
Alvin Toffler, The
Third
Wave
III. STILL NOT
SATISFIED?
See our picks of the best visionary political books from
the 2000s, HERE; from the 1990s, HERE;
from the 1970s, HERE.
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ABOUT THE RADICAL MIDDLE CONCEPT
WHY "Radical Middle"?
WIKIPEDIA
Weighs In
50 Thinkers and Activists DESCRIBE
the Radical Middle
50 Best
Radical Middle BOOKS of the '00s
GREAT RADICAL MIDDLE GROUPS AND BLOGS:
100 Great Radical Centrist GROUPS and Organizations
25 Great Radical Centrist BLOGS
SOME PRIOR RADICAL MIDDLE INITIATIVES:
Generational Equity and Communitarian
platforms 1990s
First U.S. Green Party gatherings, 1987 -
1990
Green Party's
"Ten Key Values" statement, 1984
New World Alliance, 1979 - 1983
PDF of the Alliance's "Transformation
Platform," 1981
SOME RADICAL MIDDLE LESSONS:
What the Draft Resistance Movement Taught Me
What the Civil Rights Movement Taught Me
SOME PRIOR WRITINGS BY MARK SATIN:
New
Options Newsletter, 1984-1992 (includes back issue PDFs!)
New Age Politics: Healing Self and Society, 1976,
1978 (includes 1976 text PDF!)
OTHER
PRIOR RADICAL MIDDLE TEXTS:
50 Best "Third Way" Books of the 1990s
25 Best "Transformational" Books of the
1980s
25 Best "New Age Politics" Books of the
1970s
NOT JUST RADICAL MIDDLE:
10 Best U.S. Political NOVELS
50
Current Political IDEOLOGIES
50 Current Political MANIFESTOS
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