War by Other Means: The Pacifists of the Greatest Generation Who Revolutionized Resistance by Akst, Daniel
War by Other Means: The Pacifists of the Greatest Generation Who Revolutionized Resistance by Akst, Daniel

War by Other Means: The Pacifists of the Greatest Generation Who Revolutionized Resistance

Pacifists who fought against the Second World War faced insurmountable odds--but their resistance, philosophy, and strategies fostered...
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Author: Daniel Akst
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War by Other Means: The Pacifists of the Greatest Generation Who Revolutionized Resistance by Akst, Daniel

War by Other Means: The Pacifists of the Greatest Generation Who Revolutionized Resistance

$353.52
War by Other Means: The Pacifists of the Greatest Generation Who Revolutionized Resistance by Akst, Daniel

War by Other Means: The Pacifists of the Greatest Generation Who Revolutionized Resistance

$353.52
Author: Daniel Akst
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
Pacifists who fought against the Second World War faced insurmountable odds--but their resistance, philosophy, and strategies fostered a tradition of activism that shaped America right up to the present day.

In this provocative and deeply researched work of history, Akst takes readers into the wild, heady, and uncertain times of America on the brink of a world war, following four fascinating resisters -- four figures who would subsequently become famous political thinkers and activists -- and their daring exploits: David Dellinger, Dorothy Day, Dwight MacDonald, and Bayard Rustin. The lives of these diverse anti-war advocates--a principled and passionate seminary student, a Catholic anarchist, a high-brow intellectual leftist, and an African-American pacifist and agitator--create the perfect prism through which to see World War II from a new angle, that of the opposition, as well as to show how great and lasting their achievements were.

The resisters did not stop the war, of course, but their impact would be felt for decades. Many of them went on to lead the civil-rights and anti-Vietnam War movements, the two most important social stands of the second half of the twentieth century. The various World War II resisters pioneered non-violent protest in America, popularized Gandhian principles, and desegregated the first prison mess halls. Theirs is a story that has never been told.

Author: Daniel Akst
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
Published: 12/06/2022
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.60h x 6.30w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9781612199245


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2022
Publishers Weekly 10/17/2022

About the Author
Daniel Akst is a writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Slate and other leading publications. His most recent book is We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess (2011). The paperback edition was published under the title, Temptation. He has written scores of book reviews over the years and was a board member of the National Book Critics Circle. He has been a Koret Fellow at the University of California (Berkeley) Graduate School of Journalism, a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington, DC, and a public policy fellow at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College. He has also been a visiting instructor in the humanities at Bard and has taught writing in the Bard Prison Initiative.
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