Catonsville Nine: A Story of Faith and Resistance in the Vietnam Era

ISBN-13: 9780199827855 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 416 str.

Shawn Francis Peters

Opis

On May 17th, 1968, a group of Catholic antiwar activists burst into a draft board in suburban Baltimore, stole hundreds of Selective Service records (which they called "death certificates"), and burned the documents in a fire fueled by homemade napalm. The bold actions of the ''Catonsville Nine'' quickly became international news and captured headlines throughout the summer and fall of 1968 when the activists, defended by radical attorney William Kunstler, were tried in federal court.

Recenzje

Clearly a labor of love, The Cantonsville Nine is a useful examination of the ways in which conscience and politics combined to create both an important moment of protest and witness a larger drama critiquing US foreign policy in Vietnam and the rest of the world.

O autorze

Shawn Francis Peters is Humanities Educator at the Center for Educational Opportunity, School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of When Prayer Fails, Judging Jehovah's Witnesses, and The Yoder Case.