Bøger af Michael True

a memoir by the late Michael True, late professor of peace studies and literature at Assumption College, Worcester, Massachusetts, and as guest scholar at US and international colleges and universities, with accounts of his special connection with poets, his peace activism, and his family life

An account of the tradition of literature dealing with non-violence in the United States, from the 17th to the 20th century. Beginning with Quakers of the 1680s, through the Sanctuary Movement and Plowshares of the 1980s, various novelists and poets, including Hawthorne and Whitman, are discussed.