A leadership for peace : how Edwin Ginn tried to change the world / Robert I. Rotberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rotberg, Robert I.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ginn, Edwin, 1838-1914.

Ginn, Edwin.

Pacifists--United States--Biography.

Pacifists.

Peace movements.

History.

United States.

Peace movements--United States--History--20th century.

World Peace Foundation.

Peace.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 247 pages : portraits ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2007.

Summary:

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. This is the story of Ginn's personal attempt to change world attitudes regarding the dangers of arming for war by appealing to logic, reason, and common sense. Ginn's vigorous peace campaigning and organizational activities shed substantial light on important foreign and domestic issues in the decades leading up to the First World War.

Contents:

Educating a young yankee

In the beginning was the book

The essentials of civic engagement

The quest for reason under law

A foundation for world peace

The angel song of universal peace

Creating a league of nations

"The most peaceable man in the world".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [229]-234) and index.

ISBN:

0804754551

OCLC:

70877854

Publisher Number:

9780804754552