Please join us for a special presentation featuring
Additional
panelists
will include:
Eileen
Babbit,
Ph.D. Director
of
the
International Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Program, Fletcher
School of
Law &
Diplomacy at
Tufts University;
Faculty Associate at Harvard Law School; Member of the Council on
Foreign
Relations
Steven
Brion-Meisels, Ph.D.
Director,
Peace Games Institute; Member, Massachusetts Peace Action and National Peace
Action Boards of Directors; Co-author
of “Real Security in the Future” in Peace
Action: Past, Present & Future
Brian
Corr, Co-Chair
of
the National
Peace Action Board of Directors;
Field Organizer and Public Education Coordinator for American Civil
Liberties Union of Massachusetts
| About the books: "In House of War, New York Times best-selling author James Carroll argues and then proves a radical thesis: the Pentagon has, since its founding, operated beyond the control of any force in government or society. It is the ultimate loose cannon in American history, and no institution has changed this country more since the end of World War II. From its "birth" on September 11, 1941, through the nuclear buildup of the cold war and the eventual "shock and awe" of Iraq, Carroll recounts how "the Building" and its denizens achieved what Eisenhower called "a disastrous rise of misplaced power." This is not faded history. Carroll shows how the consequences of the American response to September 11, 2001-including two wars and an ignited Middle East-form one end of an arc that stretches from Donald Rumsfeld back to James Forrestal, the first man to occupy the office of secretary of defense in the Pentagon. House of War confronts this dark past so we may understand the current war and forestall the next." -Amazon.com |
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| James
Carroll’s House
of War has been
called “unequivocally
mesmerizing” by Booklist and “Altogether
excellent…and essential for understanding the birth of
America’s empire” in a starred review
by the Kirkus
Review. Click here for a discussion of House of War with James Carroll and Amy Goodman on Democracy Now. ___________________________________________________________________________________________
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"Anybody
concerned with avoiding nuclear annihilation, and with world
peace in general, will find a treasure trove in the new book Peace Action: Past,
Present and Future. The voices
of those who have created and led Peace Action groups not only provide
valuable recent history but convey the kind of passionate wisdom that
needs to be applied to our present world." -Dr. Robert J. Lifton, Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima |
To pre-order
a copy of the Peace Action book ($15), please call 617.354.2169 or email members (at) masspeaceaction.org. Both books will be available at the event, as well. |
