Name: Janet Landman
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Janet Landman

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Looking for Revolution, Finding Murder: The Crimes & Transformation of Katherine Ann Power (Paragon Fall 2019)

Book Description

Katherine Power’s story has all the drama of a true-crime book. This is not a true-crime book. It is a biography of a conscience. It traces an evolution from good Catholic girl, to idealistic antiwar activist, to gun-toting revolutionary, to unwitting accomplice to murder, to longtime fugitive, to voluntary but defiant prisoner, to woman transformed in the autumn of her life.

Additional Book Titles

Regret: The Persistence of the Possible (Oxford 1993)

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http://janetlandman.com

Location (city/state/country)

northern California

Author bio

JANET LANDMAN, Ph.D., is a research psychologist, writer, and award-winning poet. She has taught psychology at the University of Michigan, Babson College, and Boston University. A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, Landman is author of many empirical journal articles and the nonfiction book, Regret: The Persistence of the Possible. Regret was named a Book of the Year by The Independent and by the Princeton Theological Seminary and the Association of Theological Booksellers. She now makes her home in northern California.

Professional Speaker Topics

Transforming "Negative" Emotions
How Domestic Terrorists Self-Radicalize

Favorite Quote or Personal Motto

Writing is a way of arguing with ourselves, a way of keeping ourselves honest by discovering precisely what we believe
and finding out whether we are justified in believing it.
---Jim Raymond, co-founder of The New York Times

2 Comments

David Thomas on 02/13 at 11:28 am

Dr. Landman:
I chanced across your early book, Regret, and am now embarked on it. Long ago, I did a stint (1968-80) as an ethnographer, later went back to regular work in order to make a living (as the Mainers say, It’s not living here that’s hard; it’s making a living here that’s hard.) Wanted to say a special thank you for bridging the science/humanities divide and for giving the subject its due (I always read the references first, and I can tell that you gave the subject its due). I quite believe that there could be no life without regret, else one would have to be unutterably idiotic in real terms. All best wishes, and many thanks for noting Kumin and Merwin in your text. Our Ground Time Here will indeed be brief (another cause for regret).
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Janet on 01/22 at 7:16 am

Good afternoon,

Nice to unexpectedly bump into a namesake at the other end of the world. I will definitely read your book, but for now I send you warm greetings from the Netherlands.

janet landman

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