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War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier
Smedley D. Butler
Feral House, 2003
Prescient
I found that Butler's sentiment in this book is not exactly "anti-war" in the sense that he disagrees with war. He does not. Clearly there are circumstances in which he believes war is legitimate. The only sense in which he is "anti-war" is if you are talking about ...
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Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Anti-War Activist
Bill Ayers
Beacon Press, 2008
"Fugitive Days" inspires during troubled times
I bought "Fugitive Days" for my 16-year-old nephew. Ayers' book is an inspirational account of a young person's struggles to do what's right during troubled times when the government and those in power have created an Orwellian world where the truth can be hard to ...
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Waging Peace: The Art of War for the Antiwar Movement
Scott Ritter
Nation Books, 2007
The peace movement needs help - Here it is
An intelligent, useful and highly perceptive work by a man of great integrity and courage.
I'm a business owner who, like all serious business people, specializes in making things happen. Given what's at stake, the disorganization and naivete of the US peace ...
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Ain't My America: The Long, Noble History of Antiwar Conservatism and Middle-American Anti-Imperialism
Bill Kauffman
Metropolitan Books, 2008
Finally
I was raised by my grandparents, in Northern Wisconsis. The were America First "isolationists". After reading AIN'T MY AMERICA, I have a better understanding and appreciaton for this heritage which they gave to me. Not only would America be much better off today if ...
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Working-Class War: American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam
Christian G. Appy
The University of North Carolina Press, 1993
Great stuff
Excellent look at the Vietnam War from the eyes of them what really got screwed over. Guess who they were. C'mon. Yup. The working class.
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Confronting the War Machine: Draft Resistance during the Vietnam War
Michael S. Foley
The University of North Carolina Press, 2003
Wonderful Overview Of Vietnam War Draft Resistance Movement
Nothing inspires so much enduring controversy and strongly held opinions as the subject of active draft resistance during the Vietnam War. The draft resisters were composed of a relatively small segment of the hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of young American ...
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We Who Dared to Say No to War: American Antiwar Writing from 1812 to Now
Murray Polner, Thomas E. Woods Jr.
Basic Books, 2008
Absolutely Nothing . . . (Most Of The Time)
Paleolibertarian Thomas Woods and leftist Murray Polner have collected numerous anti-war speeches and essays given at various times in American history. America's march toward empire was slow and steady, but along the way many people - both on the left and the right - ...
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THREE SOLDIERS - KINDLE EDITION [ENG]
Classics-Unbound, 2008
Three Soldiers is a 1920[1] novel by the American writer and critic John Dos Passos. It is one of the key American war novels of the First World War, and remains a classic of the realist war novel genre. H.L. Mencken, then practising primarily as an American literary critic, praised the book in the pages of the Smart Set. "Until Three Soldiers is ...
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Ravens in the Storm: A Personal History of the 1960s Anti-War Movement
Carl Oglesby
Scribner, 2008
The 60s were not what you thought they were.
This is the best memoir I have read on the protest movement, SDS, and the 60s student movement.
I read it in one sitting and was taken back to the sweaty, urgent, angry, and idealistic moments of the vietnam era. Contrary to conventional wisdom the student movement ...
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How to Achieve World Peace: The Second Greatest Book Ever Written
Jim Des Rocher
Trafford Publishing, 2006
This book offers a brilliant plan for achieving World peace. I will guarantee you that if enough people in this world want World peace, World peace will be easily achieved.
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Peace Signs: The Anti-War Movement Illustrated (Multilingual Edition)
Edition Olms, 2004
Great Tool for a Protest this Season!!!
This book was passed down to me the night before I ws going to protest Bush in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. It has many Posters that relate to any war or Bush protest. The best part is, you can reproduce these images for your own personal use. The posters keep their quallity ...
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Confronting the War Machine: Draft Resistance during the Vietnam War
Michael S. Foley
The University of North Carolina Press, 2003
Wonderful Overview Of Vietnam War Draft Resistance Movement
Nothing inspires so much enduring controversy and strongly held opinions as the subject of active draft resistance during the Vietnam War. The draft resisters were composed of a relatively small segment of the hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of young American ...
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"Give Peace a Chance" An Inquiry Into the Nature of Peace and the Terms of its Perpetuation
LeClue22, 2008
Written at the end of "the War to End all Wars" world war I, the author looks at the history of the Peace movement as askes the question is lasting Peace possible.
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Riding High
Scott Oglesby
Trafford Publishing, 2006
High on "Riding High"
I loved this book. I was first attracted to the book by its great cover art, but the story line quickly took over and kept me turning pages. Oglesby's characters were quirky yet real. And the writing was so unexpectedly wonderful that I had to stop and read over some ...
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Defend America First: The Antiwar Editorials of the Saturday Evening Post, 1939-1942
Garet Garrett
Caxton Press, 2003
A sixty year old treasure of truth uncovered
This book is probably more relevant today than when its initial version was published over sixty years ago in a series of editorials in "The Saturday Evening Post" by Garet Garrett. If you think the current debate about whether President Bush "lied" about going to war ...
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