Foreign Policy in Focus - Michael Ansara’s The Hard Work of Hope is an extraordinary memoir, presenting the political and personal reflections of a dedicated organizer over many decades.
From his early teens, Ansara played crucial roles, from civil rights advocacy to anti-war and student activism, and most notably, leading a major effort by the New Left to develop into innovative and lasting organizations outside campus walls.
Hard Work brings together razor-sharp analyses of these causes and, crucially, the current crisis represented by Trump’s second election in 2024. It offers a compelling, page-turning overview of the kaleidoscopic transformations of the 1960s and beyond as the New Left — with Ansara often playing a critical role — reached out to broader audiences, especially the working class.
The book reveals Ansara’s paradoxical gifts as an organizer: both a pulsing, burning drive for radical change in America and an endless patience to listen to and persuade people who are initially opposed to him or feel too powerless to act.
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