Farmer, Jonathan (2014-10-09). "The Genius Poet Whose New Book Makes Race Ferociously Real". Slate Magazine . Retrieved 2022-01-28. O'Rourke, Kenna (2018-10-23). "On Citizen: An American Lyric, by Claudia Rankine (Reviewed by Kenna O'Rourke)". The Adroit Journal . Retrieved 2022-01-28. The list of books that genuinely have the chance to "change the world" is a short one, but 'Citizens' is most certainly on it.

Citizens is a powerful and intriguing contribution to the search for a genuinely sustainable future.'

Nowadays, it’s easy to get caught in a downward spiral of pessimism.

Citizen lead me to several thoughts: on the surface, I want to read all of Claudia Rankine's work, AND I didn't realize that prose poetry was such a thing (how did I miss this?) and I adore the form. Little snippets, vignettes, glimpses.

His lively book – which has become something of an underground hit – highlights new forms of active citizenship.' The shift from consumer to citizen is a truly big idea. If you're in a position of strategic influence, I strongly recommend you engage with this and consciously explore what it might mean for your organisation.' - Dame Fiona Reynolds DBE, Former Director General, National Trust, and Trustee, BBC Relay UK - if you can't hear or speak on the phone, you can type what you want to say: 18001 thenthe Adviceline or Advicelink number Every great transformation requires a new story. A story that reveals new possibilities and points toward an optimistic alternative to the current situation. Citizens presents just such a story.' Standing on the shoulders of giants like Humankind: A Hopeful History and Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds, Jon Alexander and Ariane Conrad brilliantly capture a simple but profound idea about who we are and need to become.

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Best of the Decade: What Books Will We Still Be Reading in 10 Years?". Literary Hub. 2019-09-24 . Retrieved 2020-02-18. Even though the guillotine was abandoned in 1795, the fear lasted for several decades, and likely prevented resistence to the massive military conscription program instituted by Napoleon JON ALEXANDER began his career with success in advertising, winning the prestigious Big Creative Idea of the Year before making a dramatic change.

The belief that every single one of us has both the potential and the desire to make the world better drives me every day, in everything I do. In Citizens, Jon shows how taking that belief as a starting point really could transform our world. This is a truly powerful book, in every sense of the word.' - Josh Babarinde, Forbes 30 Under 30 Social Entrepreneur talk to us about any other kind of problem- we can usually help between 9am and 5pm, Monday to FridayCitizens is so exciting and full of energy from the beginning that I wanted to read the whole thing immediately. A wonderful guide to how to be human in the 21st Century.' Claudia Rankine is an American poet and playwright born in 1963 and raised in Kingston, Jamaica and New York City. A wonderful guide to how to be human in the 21st Century' – Ece Temelkuran, How to Lose a Country: the Seven Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship This uniquely accessible guided journal ignites your inner curiosity and encourages self-discovery through thought-provoking questions about the cultures you have experienced - including your own - all while helping you become a more inquisitive, aware, observant, and engaged world citizen. Why read fiction when factual stories are so amazing? This is a major book by an academic but it works well both for a knowledgeable curious reader and someone keen to learn about the amazing events in France between 1789 and 1793. Schama knows how to tell a tale (an overly academic `historiographical' approach could ruin this story) . In the same way that you would say goodbye at the end of a good novel, you miss this massive book when you finish it.

In 2014, Alexander co-founded the New Citizenship Project, to help companies and organisations transition into Citizen organisations. His team put together a list of things to do to make the Citizen way of thinking more accessible to businesses, organisations and individuals. Here are the New Citizenship Project’s Seven Modes of Everyday Participation: Brown, DeNeen L. (2015-10-23). "Laila Lalami, Elizabeth Nunez, Claudia Rankine win 2015 Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286 . Retrieved 2022-01-28.

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The shift from consumer to citizen is a truly big idea. If you’re in a position of strategic influence, I strongly recommend you engage with this and consciously explore what it might mean for your organisation.' – Dame Fiona Reynolds DBE, Former Director General, National Trust, and Trustee, BBC Of course the spoken targets were the rich, the nobility, and the clergy. But in the end it could not be confined to these groups, but became anybody who remotely seemed like a political opponent. As early as March, 1793 Pierre Vergniaud, who himself eventually went to the guillotine, offered to the tribune this terrible prophecy: "So, citizens, it must be feared that the Revolution, like Saturn, successively devouring its children, will engender, finally, only despostism with the calamities that accompany it". Despotism indeed was the fruit of the Revolution. But it was not Saturn that did the devouring, but the children of Saturn.