Paul Rogat Loeb

{{About|the American author and social change activist|the animal trainer and author|Paul Loeb}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = Paul Rogat Loeb

| birth_date = July 4, 1952

| citizenship = American

| education = Stanford University
The New School for Social Research

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| occupation = Activist

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Paul Rogat Loeb (born July 4, 1952)Who's Who in the West 1996-1997 (Marquis Who's Who, 1995: {{ISBN|0-8379-0926-0}}), p. 516. is an American writer whose work has focused on activism and social change.

Loeb was born in Berkeley, California. He attended Stanford University, and subsequently attended the New School for Social Research{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5Gg7v-L1vg |title=Engaged Lives: Activist and Author Paul Loeb {{!}} The New School for Public Engagement |date=2013-10-23 |last=The New School |access-date=2025-06-20 |via=YouTube}} in New York City, where he worked actively to end the Vietnam War. He also began his writing and speaking career during that period.{{Cite web |title=Paul Loeb |url=https://www.symposiumondemocracy.org/presenter/paul-loeb/ |access-date=2025-06-13 |website=Symposium on Democracy |language=en-US}}

Writing career

Loeb's first book, Nuclear Culture, examined the daily life of atomic weapons workers at the Hanford Site in Tri-Cities, Washington. Hope In Hard Times portrayed ordinary Americans involved in grassroots peace activism. Generation at the Crossroads explored the choices and values of GenX{{Cite web |date=December 31, 1993 |title=Studs Terkel Radio Archive |url=https://studsterkel.wfmt.com/programs/interview-paul-loeb-discussing-book-generation-crossroads-apathy-and-action-american}} His book Soul of a Citizen aimed to inspire citizen activists. His book The Impossible Will Take a Little While, an anthology of the achievements of activists in history who faced and overcame enormous obstacles, was named the #3 political book of 2004 by the History Channel and the American Book Association{{Cite web |access-date=June 15, 2025 |title=The Impossible Will Take a Little While |website=Amazon |url=https://www.amazon.com/stores/Paul-Rogat-Loeb/author/B000APYA42?ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true&ccs_id=4691d02a-568c-4f82-9cb0-64d7faf00215}}{{Cite web |date=2012-03-07 |title=Author Paul Loeb to lecture at SUNY New Paltz – SUNY New Paltz News |url=https://sites.newpaltz.edu/news/2012/03/author-paul-loeb-to-lecture-at-suny-new-paltz/ |access-date=2025-06-16 |language=en-US}} and won the Nautilus Book Award for best social change book of the year,{{Cite web |title=The Impossible Will Take a Little While |url=https://www.worldofbooks.com/products/impossible-will-take-a-little-while-book-paul-loeb-9780465041664 |access-date=2025-06-13 |website=World of Books |language=en}} and has 125,000 copies in print between two editions. Soul of a Citizen was released by St Martin's Press in 1999 and in a new and a wholly updated edition in 2010 and also won the Nautilus Award.{{Cite press release |title=2011 Nautilus Book Award Gold Winners |url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/2011-nautilus-book-award-gold-winners-122445108.html |access-date=2025-06-13 |website=www.prnewswire.com |language=en}} It now has 175,000 copies in print between the two editions.

Loeb has also written for a range of publications{{Cite web |date=2016-03-25 |title=Paul Loeb shares message of social responsibility with UNE community |url=https://www.une.edu/news/2016/paul-loeb-shares-message-social-responsibility-une-community |access-date=2025-06-16 |website=www.une.edu |language=en}} including the New York Times,{{Cite news |last=Loeb |first=Paul Rogat |date=1995-05-06 |title=Opinion {{!}} Still True to the Cause |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/05/06/opinion/still-true-to-the-cause.html |access-date=2025-06-20 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}} Washington Post,{{Cite news |last=Loeb |first=Paul |date=1983-07-03 |title=Opinion {{!}} Morality and the Last And Next Holocausts |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1983/07/03/morality-and-the-last-and-next-holocausts/2f330fa3-05e9-471f-acbf-36630badb912/ |access-date=2025-06-20 |newspaper=The Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}} USA Today, AARP Bulletin,{{Cite web |date=2010-04-01 |title=The Change Agent |work=AARP |url=https://www.aarp.org/politics-society/advocacy/info-03-2010/the_author_speaks_the_change_agent.html |last1=Lange |first1=Karen}} Los Angeles Times,{{Cite web |last=Loeb |first=Paul Rogat |date=2000-01-14 |title=Ordinary People Produce Extraordinary Results |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jan-14-me-54036-story.html |access-date=2025-06-20 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}} Boston Globe, Psychology Today, Christian Science Monitor, Chronicle of Higher Education, Huffington Post,{{Cite web |title=Paul Loeb |url=https://www.huffpost.com/author/paul-loeb |access-date=2025-06-13 |website=huffpost.com |language=en}} Redbook, Parents Magazine, Sojourners, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Miami Herald,{{Cite web |title=Reclaiming the United States 'flag for' No Kings Day protests |url=https://www.pressreader.com/similar/281706915634354 |access-date=2025-06-21 |via=PressReader}} Baltimore Sun, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Detroit News, San Francisco Chronicle, St Louis Post-Dispatch, Minnesota Star Tribune,{{Cite web |last=Loeb |first=Paul |date=2025-06-09 |title=Opinion: Reclaiming the U.S. flag for 'No Kings Day' |url=https://www.startribune.com/opinion-reclaiming-the-us-flag-for-no-kings-day/601369666 |access-date=2025-06-21 |website=startribune.com |language=en}} Tampa Tribune, Mother Jones,{{Cite web |title=Paul Rogat Loeb |url=https://www.motherjones.com/author/paul-rogat-loeb/ |access-date=2025-06-21 |website=Mother Jones |language=en-US}} The Nation,{{Cite web |date=2010-04-02 |title=Paul Rogat Loeb |url=https://www.thenation.com/authors/paul-rogat-loeb/ |access-date=2025-06-21 |website=The Nation |language=en-US}} National Catholic Reporter, Teaching Tolerance, and the International Herald Tribune.

He's been interviewed on NBC, CNN, PBS, Fox, C-Span,{{Cite web |title=Paul Loeb|url=https://www.c-span.org/person/paul-loeb/82863/ |access-date=2025-06-16 |website=www.c-span.org}} National Public Radio,{{Cite news |date=2004-08-19 |title='The Impossible Will Take a Little While' |url=https://www.npr.org/2004/08/19/3858817/the-impossible-will-take-a-little-while |access-date=2025-06-13 |work=NPR |language=en}} the BBC, the ABC, NBC, and CBS radio networks, American Urban Radio, Voice of America, and national German, Australian, and Canadian radio and spoken at TedX Athens{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH-3GrgUR9w |title=Author Soul of a Citizen and The Impossible Will Take a Little While: Paul Loeb at TEDxAthens |date=2012-12-17 |access-date=2025-06-13 |via=YouTube}} and Calgary.{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mecvrIkcdAc |title=TEDxCalgary - Paul Loeb - Finding the Courage to Fight Climate Change |date=2011-12-28 |access-date=2025-06-13 |via=YouTube}}

Loeb's work offers an often alternative look at current social issues, from poverty and taxation and budget priorities to criminal justice, environmentalism, and citizen activism. His writing has received much attention and been cited in Congressional debates. He has been interviewed hundreds of times for radio, TV and print media. He's also lectured at over 400 college campuses and numerous national conferences. He founded the Campus Election Engagement Project, a national nonpartisan effort to engage students in voting, engaging 600 campuses in 2020 before Loeb left{{Cite news |title=Staff - Campus Election Engagement Project |url=https://campuselect.org/about-ceep/staff/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200312132736/https://campuselect.org/about-ceep/staff/ |archive-date=2020-03-12 |access-date=2025-06-13 |work=Campus Election Engagement Project |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=2020-10-06 |title=How to Get Students to Vote in a Pandemic? Get Creative |url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/how-to-get-students-to-vote-in-a-pandemic-get-creative |access-date=2025-06-20 |website=The Chronicle of Higher Education |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Helping Students Become Voters:CEEP’s 2021–2022 Plan|url=https://campuselect.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/0-2021-2022-Executive-Summary.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210127223808/https://campuselect.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/0-2021-2022-Executive-Summary.pdf |archive-date=2021-01-27 |access-date=2025-06-21 |website=campuselect.org}} and guides.vote,{{Cite web |title=About |url=https://guides.vote/about |website=guides.vote |date=8 March 2022 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240715122412/guides.vote/about |archive-date=2024-07-15}} which created nonpartisan candidate guides for major elections. He left guides.vote in April 2025 to return to writing. Loeb is also a featured commentator in the film Every Three Seconds, by Oscar shortlisted documentarian Daniel Karslake.

Personal life

Loeb lives in Seattle and is married to writer Rebecca Hughes.

Bibliography

{{cite book |last1=Loeb |first1=Paul Rogat |title=Nuclear Culture: Living and Working in the World's Largest Atomic Complex |date=1986 |publisher=New Society Publishers |isbn=978-0-86571-088-7 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Nuclear_Culture/C2JBAQAAIAAJ |language=en}}
{{cite book |last1=Loeb |first1=Paul Rogat |title=Hope in Hard Times: America's Peace Movement and the Reagan Era |date=1986 |publisher=Lexington Books |isbn=978-0-669-12929-8 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Hope_in_Hard_Times/yBMQAQAAMAAJ |language=en}}
{{cite book |last1=Loeb |first1=Paul Rogat |title=Generation at the Crossroads: Apathy and Action on the American Campus |date=1994 |publisher=Rutgers University Press |isbn=978-0-8135-2256-2 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Generation_at_the_Crossroads/--FmCtmAO2QC |language=en}}
{{cite book |last1=Loeb |first1=Paul Rogat |title=Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in Challenging Times |date=2010 |publisher=St. Martin's Publishing Group |isbn=978-1-4299-3407-7 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Soul_of_a_Citizen/hLhw14J-swcC |language=en}}
{{cite book |last1=Loeb |first1=Paul Rogat |title=The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear |date=2014 |publisher=Basic Books |isbn=978-0-465-03858-9 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Impossible_Will_Take_a_Little_While/4JpVDgAAQBAJ |language=en}}

References

External links

[https://omeka.binghamton.edu/omeka/items/show/913 Interview with Paul Loeb] by Stephen McKiernan, Binghamton University Libraries Center for the Study of the 1960s, January 30, 2010
[http://www.paulloeb.org Paul Rogat Loeb's Official Website]

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