About Paul Rogat Loeb
Paul Rogat Loeb is an American writer whose work has focused on activism, civic engagement, and social change. Loeb's first book, Nuclear Culture (1982), examined the daily life of atomic weapons workers at the Hanford nuclear site in Tri-Cities, Washington. Loeb's fourth book, Soul of a Citizen, first published in 1999, strove to counter the prevalent sense of powerlessness and cynicism in the United States with inspirational stories of citizen activists. He founded the Campus Election Engagement Project, a national nonpartisan effort to engage students in voting, engaging some 600 campuses by 2020 before Loeb left. It was named the #3 political book of 2004 by the History Channel and the American Booksellers Association, and also won the Nautilus Book Award for best social change book of the year.
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