"...a journey of discovery and elation...a throbbing catalogue of civic opportunities to get involved and extend the depths and frontiers of self-government." --Ralph Nader "An important contribution to our understanding of how at least 20 million average Americans have managed to organize themselves around issues of local concern." --The New York Times Book Review "A critically important book for the eighties." --Social Policy "The Backyard Revolution is necessary reading...Clearly this is visionary politics for an age of sophisticated despair." --New Republic