A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks Love Song to the Nation trilogy. All About Love reveals what causes a polarized society and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. Here is the truth about love and inspiration to help us instill caring compassion and strength in our homes schools and workplaces. The word love is most often defined as a noun yet we would all love better if we used it as a verb writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. Here at her most provocative and intensely personal renowned scholar cultural critic and feminist bell hooks offers a proactive new ethic for a society bereft with lovelessness--not the lack of romance but the lack of care compassion and unity. People are divided she declares by society s failure to provide a model for learning to love. As bell hooks uses her incisive mind to explore the question What is love? her answers strike at both the mind and heart. Razing the cultural paradigm that the ideal love is infused with sex and desire she provides a new path to love that is sacred redemptive and healing for individuals and for a nation. The Utne Reader declared bell hooks one of the 100 Visionaries Who Can Change Your Life. All About Love is a powerful timely affirmation of just how profoundly her revelations can change hearts and minds for the better.