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Robert I. Rotberg - Leadership for Peace - 9780804754552 - V9780804754552
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Leadership for Peace

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Description for Leadership for Peace Hardback. A Leadership for Peace is about Edwin Ginn's personal attempt to change world attitudes regarding the dangers of arming for war by appealing to logic, reason, and common sense. Num Pages: 264 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; BGH; GTJ; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 467.

For as long as there has been war, there have been those who have opposed such bloodshed. Here 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. Born into poverty, Ginn rose to become one of the wealthiest men of his day. While in his mid-fifties, after his second marriage to a much younger woman, he began to direct his time and money to various social causes, primarily the nascent American peace movement. This is the story of Ginn's personal attempt to change ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804754552
SKU
V9780804754552
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Robert I. Rotberg
Robert I. Rotberg is Director of the Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, and President of the World Peace Foundation.

Reviews for Leadership for Peace
"This book presents little-known and new material regarding a 'leading' figure in the late 19th and early 20th century American peace movement—the Boston educational book publisher and originator of the World Peace Foundation, Edwin Ginn. It does something more, which is to exhibit nearly all of the strategic and intellectual dilemmas that are faced by the internationalist counterparts of Edwin ... Read more

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