Product Description: Long a hub for literary bohemians, countercultural musicians, and readers interested in a good browse, Kepler’s Books and Magazines is one of the most influential independent bookstores in American history. When owner Roy Kepler opened the San Francisco Bay Area store in 1955, he led the way as a pioneer in the "paperback revolution...read more

Product Description: From the famed peace activist, her inspiring story of how she put aside despair over her son's death and spoke truth to power.

Product Description: Belle W. Baruch (1899-1964) could outride, outshoot, outhunt, and outsail most of the young men of her elite social circle--abilities that distanced her from other debutantes of 1917. Unapologetic for her athleticism and interests in traditionally masculine pursuits, Baruch towered above male and female counterparts in height and daring...read more

Product Description: The biography of non-violent revolutionary Marv Davidov, who has been arrested more than 50 times during his career as a grassroots activist, tells the tale of a man dedicated to effecting change through peaceful means.

Documents the story of a twenty-three-year-old American activist who was killed in 2003 in the Gaza Strip, in an account based on her personal writings that offers insight into the origins of her beliefs.

This memoir chronicles the life of Mary Susannah Robbins―poet, activist, and devoted daughter of famous mathematician Herbert E. Robbins. Her antiwar activism, beginning with her experiences during the Vietnam War and continuing into the present with the Iraq War, has given her a perspective from which to tell a unique story of American life.Her childhood having been spent surrounded by such luminaries of the twentieth century as Albert Einstein, Aldous Huxley, and Alan Lomax, Robbins writes of the early influence that her parents and their colleagues had on her later call to activism in the 1960s. She discusses the relationships that guided her to become involved with various antiwar movements. Her personal reflections within this book form a powerful tribute to the many lives that have touched and been touched by her.

Product Description: This work offers an authorized biography of Lillian and George Willoughby, Quaker peace activists who have been at the forefront of many movements over the last century. This work should appeal to scholars interested in the lives of these two individuals, American peace movements, and Quaker studies...read more

Product Description: For as long as there has been war, there have been those who have opposed such bloodshed. Here Robert Rotberg details the flowering of the great American peace movement in the late nineteenth century and the remarkable life of its foremost proponent, Edwin Ginn...read more

'Recounts an incredible life journey, beginning in New Zealand when her mother abandons her and a foster family abuses her in every way imaginable. A stubborn survivor, she escapes to America via Sydney and London. She is saved by the birth of her son, Kirk, whose father was famous jazz personality Herb Jeffries, and gives her heart to troubled film actor Charles Drake. After the unspeakable loss of her only child, she must search for the meaning of life itself.'--Cover.

Product Description: THE INTREPID QUAKER: ONE MAN'S QUEST FOR PEACE: MEMOIRS, SPEECHES AND WRITINGS OF STEPHEN G. CARY. INCLUDES SEVERAL PHOTOGRAPHS.

Product Description: From our nation's birth in the crucible of revolution, to the bloody Civil War that pitted brother against brother and defined our national destiny, to recent aggressions from those within and without in opposition to our nation's values, American history has been shaped by violence...read more

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Product Description: 1999 Pendle House Trade Paperback, This exact ISBN, NOT a hardback, almost like new cover & text

Details the public and private lives of Margaret Scott Olmsted, revealing her enormous contributions to the expansion of world peace that included the foundation of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and other valiant endeavors.

Product Description: This biography of Maurice McCrackin, now in his mid-eighties, chronicles how one manas story interweaves with many of the crucial social issues of the past fifty years: integration, civil rights, McCarthyism, schooling, the arms build-up, poverty, treatment of prisoners, and homelessness, among others...read more

Product Description: Detailing the life and times of Lucia Ames Mead, a writer, literature teacher, leading female pacifist and transitional figure, this text provides historical coverage of the American peace movement, especially the female participants therein.