Left Bank Books presents witness to history & crusader for justice, Helen Shiller, who will discuss her profoundly human and profoundly personal memoir, Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win: Five Decades of Resistance in Chicago's Uptown Community in our store on November 14th at 7pm! Join us in the store or on YouTube & Facebook Live Page.

Order copies of Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win: Five Decades of Resistance in Chicago's Uptown Community from Left Bank Books to support authors and independent bookstores! Shiller will personalize and sign copies for sale from Left Bank Books.If you are unable to make it in person, leave a personalization note in your order.

Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win tells the fascinating true story of an individual radical organizer turned independent Chicago city council member, and her forty year struggle for justice in Chicago.

Helen Shiller went from radical anti-war activist in Wisconsin, to a member of a collective of white allies of the Black Panther Party in Chicago, to an elected city council person who helped break the back of the racialized opposition to Harold Washington, Chicago's first Black mayor.

Shiller participated, when few others did, in the historic fight against the gentrification of a unique economically and racially mixed Chicago community on the Northside. With insight into historic community organizing and political battles in Chicago from the 1970s through 2010, this book details numerous policy fights and conflicts in Chicago during this time, illuminating recurrent political themes and battles that remain relevant to this day.

Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win is a compelling, insightful, must-read for all those struggling for a better world today.