| Contents |
Mexican-American War -- Theodore Parker delivers "A sermon of war" -- Charles Sumner calls for the withdrawal of American troops from Mexico -- Abraham Lincoln inveighs against President Polk -- Civil War -- Clement Vallandigham argues that the war cannot be won -- Alexander Long proposes peace at any price -- Spanish-American War and Philippine Insurrection -- Moorfield Storey warns of a dangerous and growing militarism -- Charles Eliot Norton defines "true patriotism" -- Carl Schurz discusses the perils faced by an occupying force -- Charles Eliot Norton accuses America of "counterfeit patriotism" -- World War I -- William Jennings Bryan resigns as Secretary of State to launch an antiwar crusade -- George Norris assails the Senate's War Resolution -- Robert La Follette argues that the war lacks popular support -- Kate Richards O'Hare discusses the war's degradation of women -- Eugene V. Debs argues that the working class will "furnish the corpses" of war -- World War II -- Norman Thomas discusses the War's effect on civil liberties -- Richard Wright justifies African American opposition to World War II -- Charles Lindbergh asks "who are the war agitators?" -- Korean War -- Paul Robeson declares that Blacks will never fight the Soviet Union -- W.E.B. Du Bois runs for Congress on a peace platform -- Vietnam War -- Martin Luther King, Jr. urges Americans to go "beyond Vietnam" -- Eugene J. McCarthy celebrates the "spirit of 1963" -- Robert F. Kennedy says of the war in Vietnam: "it must be ended" -- Shirley Chisholm demands "people and peace, not profits and war" -- Fannie Lou Hamer rallies antiwar students at Berkeley -- John Kerry testifies on behalf of Vietnam veterans against the war -- War On Terror -- Barbara Lee pleads with the House not to "become the evil that we deplore" -- Barack Obama criticizes a "dumb war" -- Noam Chomsky asks "why Iraq?" -- Robert Byrd chastises the Senate for standing "passively mute" -- Arundhati Roy rails against "imperial democracy". |
| Abstract |
"A collection of American antiwar speeches from every major conflict starting with the Mexican-American War. Includes critical analyses, biographical and bibliographical information, and an appendix describing common rhetorical devices used by antiwar speakers"--Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-273) and index. |
| LCCN | 2012007181 |
| ISBN | 9780271048680 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0271048689 (cloth : alk. paper) |
