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We Who Dared to Say No to War: American Antiwar Writing from 1812 to Now
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by Murray Polner, Thomas E. Woods Jr.
Murray Polner
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We Who Dared to Say No to War: American Antiwar Writing from 1812 to Now
368
by Murray Polner, Thomas E. Woods Jr.
Murray Polner
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We Who Dared to Say No to War uncovers some of the forgotten but compelling body of work from the American antiwar tradition -- speeches, articles, poetry, book excerpts, political cartoons, and more -- from people throughout our history who have opposed war. Beginning with the War of 1812, these selections cover every major American war up to the present and come from both the left and the right, from religious and secular viewpoints. There are many surprises, including a forgotten letter from a Christian theologian urging Confederate President Jefferson Davis to exempt Christians from the draft and a speech by Abraham Lincoln opposing the 1848 Mexican War. Among others, Daniel Webster, Mark Twain, Andrew Carnegie, Grover Cleveland, Eugene Debs, Robert Taft, Paul Craig Roberts, Patrick Buchanan, and Country Joe and the Fish make an appearance. This first-ever anthology of American antiwar writing offers the full range of the subject's richness and variety.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780786726165 |
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Publisher: | Basic Books |
Publication date: | 10/20/2008 |
Sold by: | Hachette Digital, Inc. |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 368 |
File size: | 3 MB |
About the Author
Murray Polner is a freelance editor and writer whose work has appeared in Washington Monthly, Commonweal, the Nation, Columbia Journalism Review, and the Jewish Week, among others. He lives in Great Neck, New York.
Thomas E. Woods, Jr., is a senior fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute. His numerous books include the New York Times bestseller The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History. Woods lives in Auburn, Alabama, with his wife and three daughters.
Thomas E. Woods, Jr., is a senior fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute. His numerous books include the New York Times bestseller The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History. Woods lives in Auburn, Alabama, with his wife and three daughters.
Table of Contents
Introduction xi
The War of 1812 1
"The Draft Is Unconstitutional" Daniel Webster 3
"What Republicanism Is This?" John Randolph 9
"With Good Advice Make War" Samuel Taggart 10
"Thou Hast Done a Deed Whereat Valor Will Weep" Alexander Hanson 19
The Mexican War 21
"Annexation and War with Mexico Are Identical" Henry Clay 23
"The True Grandeur of Nations" Charles Sumner 24
"Mean and Infamous" Theodore Parker 28
"The Half-Insane Mumbling of a Fever Dream" Abraham Lincoln 30
"This Is a War for Slavery" William Goodell 33
"Address on War" Alexander Campbell 45
The Civil War 55
"The War Method of Peace" Ezra Heywood 58
"A Christian Appeal to the Confederacy" David Lipscomb 61
"War or Constitution" Clement L. Vallandigham 66
"Do Not Serve as a Chaplain" Alfred H. Love 78
"Gross, Shameless, Transparent Cheats" Lysander Spooner 82
The Spanish-Americanand Philippine-American Wars 87
"A Peace Appeal to Labor" Bolton Hall 89
"War Is Kind" Stephen Crane 92
"The Conquest of the United States by Spain" William Graham Sumner 93
A Mother, "A Lament from Kentucky" 97
"The Pesky Anti-Imperialist" Wendell Phillips Garrison 98
"The Paralyzing Influence of Imperialism" William Jennings Bryan 101
"The American Birthright and the Philippine Pottage" Henry Van Dyke 109
World War I 115
"Wealth's Terrible Mandate" George W. Norris 118
"The People Do Not Want This War" Robert M. La Follette 123
"The State" Randolph Bourne 132
"Strike Against War" Helen Keller 140
"Disarm and Have Peace: A Pacifist Plea to End War" Jane Addams 146
"The Subject Class Always Fights the Battles" Eugene V. Debs 148
"If: A Mother to Her Daughter" Florence Guertin Tuttle 155
"Victory" Marion Patton Waldron 156
World War II 159
"Two Votes Against War: 1917 and 1941" Jeannette Rankin 162
"Assumptions about War" Stuart Chase 169
"Why We Refused to Register" Donald Benedict, et al. 173
"Why I Refused to Register in the October 1940 Draft and a Little of What It Led To" David Dellinger 175
"I Think I'll Sit This One Out" Milton S. Mayer 183
The Cold War 195
"A Turning Point in American History" Henry A. Wallace 197
"The President Has No Right to Involve the United States in a Foreign War" Robert A. Taft 200
Dwight Eisenhower on the Military-Industrial Complex 205
"Those Who Protest: The Transformation of the Conservative Movement" Robert LeFevre 207
"Real Conservatives Don't Start Wars" Bill Kauffman 214
"War, Peace, and the State" Murray N. Rothbard 217
"Conservative Thoughts on Foreign Policy" Russell Kirk 226
The Vietnam War 229
"Against the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution" Wayne Morse 232
"This Chamber Reeks of Blood" George McGovern 237
"Let's Mind Our Own Business" David M. Shoup 239
Divinity Students' Letter to Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, 1967 240
"Fighting the Lamb's War: Skirmishes with the American Empire" Philip Berrigan 242
"The Verdict" Daniel Berrigan 244
"Learning the Hard Way" W.D. Ehrhart 245
"Time on Target" W.D. Ehrhart 253
"Hunting" W.D. Ehrhart 254
"The Fish Cheer & I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag" Country Joe$dthe Fish 255
Iraq and the War on Terror 259
"Against War with Afghanistan" Barbara Lee 261
"We Stand Passively Mute" Robert Byrd 263
"An Open Letter to My Fellow Veterans" Camillo "Mac" Bica 268
"I Lost My Son to a War I Oppose; We Were Both Doing Our Duty" Andrew J. Bacevich 270
"Why Did Bush Destroy Iraq?" Paul Craig Roberts 274
"It's Mother's Day Again and We're Still at War" Murray Polner 277
"Inaugurating Endless War" Patrick J. Buchanan 279
Resignation Letter John Brady Kiesling 282
"Iraq Comes Home: Soldiers Share the Devastating Tales of War" Emily DePrang 285
Americans Confront War 295
John Quincy Adams on U.S. Foreign Policy 295
"Mother's Day Proclamation" Julia Ward Howe 297
"The Valuation of Human Life in War" Elihu Burritt 298
"Four Bloody Lies of War, from Havana 1898 to Baghdad 2003" Harvey Wasserman 300
"The Glory of War" Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. 305
"Put Away the Flags" Howard Zinn 310
"War Is a Government Program" Sheldon Richman 313
"Reflections on War and Its Consequences" Lawrence S. Wittner 315
"Left-Right Alliance Against War?" Jon Basil Utley 318
Great Antiwar Films, A List by Butler Shaffer 325
Bibliography 331
Acknowledgments 339
About the Editors 341
Index 343
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