War no more : three centuries of American antiwar and peace writing
Title:
War no more : three centuries of American antiwar and peace writing
Author:
Rosenwald, Lawrence Alan, 1948- , editor.
Publication Information:
New York, N.Y. : The Library Of America, [2016]
©2016
Physical Description:
xxx, 838 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Summary:
"Americans have been at war for most of our history as a people. Wars of conquest gave way to wars of empire, the Civil War to the World Wars, and the Cold War to the War on Terror. Our national anthem celebrates heroism under fire, and martial imagery permeates our politics and our pastimes. But at every turn in this history, Americans have questioned and resisted both particular wars and justifications for war in general. Taking up the pen instead of the sword, they have produced a body of literature of great passion and power, a homegrown American tradition that refuses the proposition that war is the inevitable price of liberty or prosperity - that dares to envision a world where people learn war no more. Gathering essays, letters, speeches, memoirs, songs, poems, cartoons, leaflets, stories, and other works by nearly 150 writers from the colonial era to the present, War No More brings this extraordinary writing together for the first time in a single volume"--
Language:
English
Contents:
"The tree of great peace" / The journal of John Woolman / A plea for the poor / "I counted none my enemy" / "An odd and singular man" / A plan of a peace-office for the United States / The book of Mormon / War / Declaration of sentiments adopted by the Peace Convention, held in Boston, September 18, 19, & 20, 1838 / The arsenal at Springfield / The term non-resistance / Speech delivered at the anti-war meeting, in Faneuil Hall, February 4, 1847 / Speech of Mr. Corwin, of Ohio, on the Mexican War / Civil disobedience / Nov. 30 to an absent wife / The record of a Quaker conscience : Cyrus Pringle's diary / Shiloh / Reconciliation / A harvest of death / Appeal to womanhood throughout the world / Chickamauga / War is kind / Battle hymn of the republic (brought down to date) / The war prayer / The moral equivalent of war / Christians at war / Preparedness, the road to universal slaughter / Heroes / The war and intellectuals / Below the battle / Down by the river-side / To the president of Wellesley College / Toward human unity or beyond nationalism / Address to the jury / An experiment in conscience / The Stierheim case / Scott Nearing reprieves democracy / "There will come soft rains" / Personal reactions during war / 1923 : in Europe / Dissent in United States vs. Schwimmer / "i sing of Olaf glad and big" / On trial / Conscientious objector / Johnny got his gun / A field of broken stones / Letter to President Roosevelt / To Local Board No. 63 / A petition to the President of the United States / We go on record-- / Wailing shall be in all streets / One war is enough / Epitaph : 1945 / The conscientious objector / To meet a friend / The Danbury story / Annexes to the General Advisory Committee Report of October 30, 1949 / Last night I had the strangest dream / August 2026 : there will come soft rains / A decent respect for human intelligence / Why I am sailing into the Pacific bomb-test area / Two votes against war : 1917, 1941 -- Zen telegrams / Where have all the flowers gone? / A matter of freedom / Southern peace walk : two issues or one? / The strategy of tax refusal / The future of nonviolence / The war on Vietnam / The I-feel-like-I'm-fixin'-to-die rag / Statement made on 12/21/65 to the Federal Grand Jury / Statement on American policy in Vietnam / Necessities (I) / The moral outrage of Vietnam / Of late / Life at war / Making peace / Beyond Vietnam / Counting small-boned bodies / The War Crimes Tribunal / A young pacifist / A causerie at the military-industrial / The armies of night / Mobilization! / Dow shalt not kill / When the war is over / Nonviolence does not - cannot - mean passivity / War and the crisis of language / What would you do if? / Poem / "The business of America is war and it is time for a change" / The liberation of our people / The trial of the Catonsville Nine / I should be proud / I refuse / Statement of John Kerry, Vietnam Veterans Against the War / Born on the Fourth of July / Winners and losers / Terminal colloquy / Cop tales : devastation / Women's Pentagon Action Unity Statement / "I was told it was necessary" / Revolutionary violence : a dialogue / Born again radical / The IRS' plan for the hereafter / "One race, the human race" / "Like the elders say" / The role of the military in the nuclear age / Pacifist : or, My war and Louis Lepke -- Calvin and Hobbes : "How come we play war and not peace?" / To: Internal Revenue Service / War resister's song / 2527th birthday of the Buddha / On the rainy river / An atlas of the difficult world / Democracy from the heart / The truth / The tracks / Jerusalem / The bombing of Baghdad / Hearts on fire / Fighting war / Not in our son's name / Speech on House Joint Resolution 64 / A pure, high note on anguish / Weighing the costs of waging war in Iraq / No more unto the breach / America's image in the world / March of death / Driving the bus : after the anti-war march / Baghdad / Sadiq / Road from ar Ramadi / I lost my son to a war I oppose. We were both doing our duty / For the fifty (who made PEACE with their bodies) / That particular village / Why I'm a pacifist : the dangerous myth of the good war / An interview with Sister Anne Montgomery, RSCJ / An honorable discharge / I cast my hook, I decide to make peace
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ISBN:
9781598534733
Format :
Book
