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"It's not just the bully in the schoolyard that we should be worried about. The one-on-one bullying that dominates the national conversation, this timely book suggests, is actually part of a larger problem--a natural outcome of the bullying nature of our national institutions. And as long as the United States embraces militarism and aggressive capitalism, systemic bullying and all its impacts--at home and abroad--will persist as a major crisis. Bullying looks very similar on the personal and institutional levels: it involves an imbalance of power and behavior that consistently undermines its victim, securing compliance and submission and reinforcing the bully's sense of superiority and legitimacy. The similarity, this book tells us, is not a coincidence.
About the Author
Charles Derber is Professor of Sociology at Boston College and has written fifteen books - on politics, economy, capitalism, war, the culture wars, and social change - reviewed in the NY Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, and other leading media, and translated into six languages. He has written for the International Herald Tribune, the Boston Globe, Newsday, the Christian Science Monitor, Tikkun, Cognescenti (Boston's WBUR/NPR Opinion Page), and many other periodicals and other media. Derber is a public intellectual who believes that serious ideas should be written in an accessible and entertaining style. He is also a life-long activist who participates in peace, environmental, labor and other social justice movements. He is married and has a beautiful Wheaten Terrier dog named Mojo, who lives up to his name.
