Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Difficult Times

In his book, Hope Dies Last, renowned oral historian Studs Terkel draws on interviews with organizers, workers, immigrants, political activists, and ordinary Americans to illustrate how people face and respond to difficult times while holding onto hope. Said former IAF National Director Ed Chambers: “I realized that I got my energy for this work from other people, so the self must stay in connection with others, new others, others that have more talent and more vision and more power than you have.” In short -- "you’ve got to be in relationship with real people.”