In Feeling Strong: The Achievement of Authentic Power Ethel Specter Person has set out to make a case for power as another drive. On her quest, she makes many stops, some more successful or intriguing than others. Quite obviously power is important to her, not only in an ordinary and general way, but also because of the trauma which apparently wove itself into the book: her shattered leg and its complicated reassembly. I found myself fascinated (an occupational tilt toward the backstory) by this circumstance, referred to obliquely in the body of the book, a kind of mystery or McGuffin, and explicated in her last chapter “Standing on Your Own Two Feet.” This title and other references in passing to “a crash course in power” made me wince in pain and smile at the turn of her