In his new history of Christian nonviolence from World War I to Vietnam, Joseph Kip Kosek asks what this movement has offered American democracy, and how much of the offer has been accepted. The book is largely about a single organization, the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR), founded in the first months of World War I by European and American liberal Protestant pacifists. Th (...)
May 22, 2009
Books
The Original Peaceniks
Acts of ConscienceChristian Nonviolence and Modern American DemocracyJoseph Kip KosekColumbia University Press, $50, 376 pp.
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