Feminist, social critic and political activist Naomi Wolf raises awareness of the pervasive inequities that exist in politics and society and encourages people to take charge of their lives, voice their concerns and enact change.

The Beauty Myth, her first book, was an international bestseller. She followed that with Fire With Fire: The New Female Power and How It Will Change The 21st Century, and Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle for Womanhood, published in 1997. Misconceptions, released in 2001, is a powerful and passionate critique of pregnancy and birth in America. In The Treehouse: Eccentric Wisdom from My Father on How to Live, Love and See (2005), Wolf shared the enduring wisdom of her father, Leonard Wolf, a poet and teacher who believes that every person is an artist in their own unique way.

Ms. Wolf’s latest book is The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot, an impassioned call to return to the aspirations and beliefs of the Founding Fathers. In it, Wolf shows how events of the last six years parallel steps taken in the early years of the 20th century’s worst dictatorships.

Naomi Wolf is cofounder of the Board of The Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership, an organization devoted to training young women in ethical leadership for the 21st century. A graduate of Yale and a former Rhodes Scholar, Wolf has written essays for The New Republic, The Wall Street Journal, Glamour, and The New York Times. She was a consultant to the Gore 2000 presidential campaign. Glamour magazine named her Woman of the Year.

Hot off the presses: GIVE ME LIBERTY: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries (Simon & Schuster; September 16, 2008).

In GIVE ME LIBERTY: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries , Wolf investigates the roots of a growing national malaise that has bred “fake democracy” in the United States over the last three decades, a condition marked by equally fake patriotism and a modern notion that we Americans are “the Elect.” This is direct heresy against the founders'" intent, Wolf says: Jefferson, Adams, Franklin and the rest “did not create liberty for America, but America for liberty, which they understood as part of universal law . . . The founders had made it clear that we were not supposed to see ourselves as constituents, voters or recipients of the leadership of our representatives. We ordinary people were supposed to run things ourselves.”