Synopses & Reviews
The fearless Tina Rosenberg has spent her career tackling some of the world's hardest problems. , her searing work on how Eastern Europe faced the crimes of Communism, garnered both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. In , she identifies a brewing social revolution that is changing the way people live, based on harnessing the positive force of peer pressure. Her stories of peer power in action show how it has reduced teen smoking in the United States, made villages in India healthier and more prosperous, helped minority students get top grades in college calculus, and even led to the fall of Slobodan Milosevic. She tells how creative social entrepreneurs are starting to use peer pressure to accomplish goals as personal as losing weight and as global as fighting terrorism. Inspiring and engrossing, explains how we can better our world through humanity's most powerful and abundant resource: our connections with one another.
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Sweepingly ambitious...Rosenberg’s case studies are as different as they are fascinating...the ideas in Join the Club are exciting, and they immediately make one consider professional and personal obstacles in one’s own life that might be amenable to a “join the club” solution. It is an empowering idea.Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Tina Rosenberg spots a brewing social phenomenon: the power of groups to motivate positive changes. Using stories to illustrate this premise in action, Rosenberg describes how positive peer pressure reduced teen smoking in the U.S., improved the health and prosperity of Indian villages, helped minority students earn the highest grades, and hastened the fall of Slobodan Milosevic. --2011 - & - #39; - & - #39;s Most Anticipated Books
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Tina Rosenberg has cracked a code that reveals how people change for the better. She has found the common humanity in human communities across the earth. Join the Club will open your mind to the ways in which we can heal our world. --Tim Weiner, author of Legacy of Ashes
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Sweepingly ambitious...Rosenberg's case studies are as different as they are fascinating...the ideas in Join the Club are exciting, and they immediately make one consider professional and personal obstacles in one's own life that might be amenable to a "join the club" solution. It is an empowering idea. As Rosenberg says, 'We are all good boys at risk of the bad crowd. Peer pressure is a mighty and terrible force so powerful that, for the vast majority of people, the best antidote to it is more peer pressure.' The salvation or the lifeline that comes can take many forms, but, to use Rosenberg's words as she concludes a brilliant book that fully realizes its ambition, 'What matters is that at the other end, someone's hand is there.'
Synopsis
In the style of or , a groundbreaking book that will change the way you look at the world.
About the Author
Tina Rosenberg, the winner of a MacArthur grant, is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine. Her last book, The Haunted Land, won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. She lives in New York City.