In this provocative and deeply researched work of history, Akst takes readers into the wild, heady, and uncertain times of America on the brink of a world war, following four fascinating resisters - four men who would subsequently become famous political thinkers and activists - and their daring exploits: Dwight MacDonald, Kingman Brewster, David Dellinger, and Bayard Rustin. The lives of these diverse anti-war advocates - a blue-blooded isolationist, a high-brow intellectual leftist, a principled and passionate seminary student, and an African-American pacifist and agitator - create the perfect prism through which to see World War II from a new angle, that of the opposition, as well as to show how great and lasting these men's achievements were.The resisters did not stop the war, of course, but their impact would be felt for decades. Many of them went on to lead the civil-rights and anti-Vietnam War movements, the two most important social stands of the second half of the twentieth c
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In this provocative and deeply researched work of history, Akst takes readers into the wild, heady, and uncertain times of America on the brink of a world war, following four fascinating resisters - four men who would subsequently become famous political thinkers and activists - and their daring exploits: Dwight MacDonald, Kingman Brewster, David Dellinger, and Bayard Rustin. The lives of these diverse anti-war advocates - a blue-blooded isolationist, a high-brow intellectual leftist, a principled and passionate seminary student, and an African-American pacifist and agitator - create the perfect prism through which to see World War II from a new angle, that of the opposition, as well as to show how great and lasting these men's achievements were.The resisters did not stop the war, of course, but their impact would be felt for decades. Many of them went on to lead the civil-rights and anti-Vietnam War movements, the two most important social stands of the second half of the twentieth c
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