The book that inspires Occupy Wall Street?

Could a 94-year-old former French resistance fighter from World War II become the sage of the Occupy Wall Street movement in America?

Maybe.

Reaching across generations, St�phane Hessel has written a pamphlet-sized manifesto on rebellion that is inspiring youthful uprisings not only in the United States but across Europe. ?Indignez-vous!?, first published in France a year ago, has sold nearly 4 million copies in Europe and has now appeared in the United States under the title ?Time for Outrage?. The public television newscast Democracy Now has cited the tiny volume as an inspiration to Occupy Wall Street protesters in New York. And William D. Cohan, a Bloomberg columnist and author of ?Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World,? suggested last week that the book ?could come in handy for the growing Occupy Wall Street movement as it continues to search for its voice and its raison d?etre (as the French would say.)?

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