Beyond the Weapons of Our Fathers

By Edward W. Wood Jr.

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155591179X
• ISBN13: 9781555911799
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.8" x 6.2"

Customer Reviews

An extraordinary book

This is an extraordinary book -- the profound search over decades of one man, seriously wounded in France in WWII, for the search for how human civilization can ever progress to real peace. Using the inherited papers of generations of his American warrior ancestors back to the 1600's, he explores the different sides of what has led to past violence. Only in understanding that violence of the past is there hope for a future of a civilization that is truly different. The book often reads as a stage play, though he did not write it that way: ancestors from different eras with different views converse with each other and the author. His research is broad and deep, not only in the many boxes of ancestral documents but in the history of how these difficult questions have been addressed by peoples through the ages. This really would make an excellent required reading in a peace studies course or a history course. It puts the reader in touch with very difficult questions and very good research in a very readable way.

A caustic study of the violence that has marked America

Beyond The Weapons Of Our Fathers by poet and essayist Edward W. Wood Jr. is a close and caustic study of the violence that has marked America since its war of independence, including the terrible toll of the Civil War down to conflicts still vivid in the memory of today's generation. An unflinching look at the intersection of violence and American History, culminating in a passionate call for a better future, Beyond The Weapons Of Our Fathers is especially timely reading in view of today's War on Terrorism and Middle East conflict with Iraq.