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War Against War The American Fight for Peace 19141918 edition by Michael Kazin Politics Social Sciences eBooks

This is primarily of the pacifist sentiment that existed before and during the entry of the United States into WWI. It also goes through the literal trials and problems these segments of society had trying to spot this from happening. It also sets up the foundation of war protesters for all future conflicts.


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War Against War The American Fight for Peace 19141918 edition by Michael Kazin Politics Social Sciences eBooks Reviews

I received a free electronic copy of this history from Netgalley, Michael Kazin, and Simon and Schuster in exchange for an honest review. Thank you all, for sharing your hard work with me.

GN I have a special interest in 20th century history, including WWI during which my maternal grandfather served. This book touches on those who supported isolationism during the WWI conflict - something only covered lightly in my past readings. I am grateful to more fully understand this aspect of our history.

The book is well written, and well documented. It is one I will keep for research. Though the isolationists of WWII and the Vietnam Conflict have been pretty well documented, I was not aware that WWI had as strong a backing of anti-militarists as this book reveals them to be. Thank you, for sharing this aspect of American history with me.
War Against War is the story of a peace movement that almost kept the US out of World War One. It is filled with little known and long forgotten actions of the American government and its citizens.
America’s entry into the war foreclosed the possibility of a negotiated peace among the belligerents, who were exhausted by three years of fighting. In another year or two, the warring nations would have been forced to reach a settlement. There would have been no punitive peace treaty, no reparations, no Nazis and World War Two.
Four very different individuals―Socialist Morris Hillquit, liberal feminist Crystal Eastman, House Majority Leader Claude Kitchin, and Senator Bob LaFollette―all believed industrial corporations wielded too much sway, eager for war to increase their profits. Americans could do a good business with one or both sides while the killing lasted. A Nashville headline “Let ‘em shoot! It makes good business for us!”
The Progressives argued that all munitions be produced by the federal government to take the profits out of war. If that happened, the millionaire patriots agitating for ever increasing armaments would instead complain about the tax money being spent to prepare for war in time of peace. LaFollette insisted the “trade in munitions had but one purpose, and that is to sacrifice human life for private gain.”
Peace advocates had grand conventions, but little came of them. They were praised for their efforts, but belligerents were firm about the war ending their way. The warring nations wanted decisive victory for their armies. Some claimed spinning grand designs for a mediated peace was a colossal waste of time.
People who warned us against entering wars often end up being right, and they often end up being punished by a government that doesn’t want to hear the message. In joining the Allies, the US won the war, but lost the peace, gaining no satisfying moral outcome.
In no previous war had there been so much repression in the US, legal and otherwise. Never had the government created a propaganda agency to make an altruistic case for involvement. President Woodrow Wilson believed war critics had to stay silent or suffer. He equated opposition with treason. He actually endorsed a form of Prussianism employing the might of the state to crush the liberties of its citizens.
As Max Eastman (brother of Crystal Eastman) said, “There is no use making the world safe for democracy if there is no democracy left in the world. There is no use waging a war for liberty if every liberty we have must be abolished in order to wage war.”
War Against War presents a lot to ponder. This is not light reading, but it is worth it.
I received a free copy in exchange for my honest review.
Could not get past Chapter 2. Little or no historical analysis. Instead, an amalgamation of quotes and quips from targeted historic figures. Anyone care to buy a book "as good as new"? It is a shame since the topic could have been interesting.
Georgetown history professor Michael Kazin wears his biases on his sleeve. As someone who was very active in the 1960s anti-war and radical movements, Kazin has written a highly sympathetic account of the anti-war movement that arose in the U.S. to keep us out of World War I. He organizes his history around the lives of four people who symbolized the broad-based coalition that worked round the clock in their anti-war efforts. They are the Southern segregationist Majority Leader of the House and Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, Claude Kitchin; Crystal Eastman a social reformer who founds the Woman’s Peace Party and the American Union Against Militarism; Morris Hilquit the Jewish Socialist labor lawyer and politician form New York City and Senator Robert La Follette, the Wisconsin progressive filibusters President Wilson’s proposal to arm merchant ships. It was that filibuster that caused the Senate to adopt the cloture rules we have today.

Along the way we meet Crystal Eastman’s brother, Max who publishes Masses, future socialist Norman Thomas, auto magnate Henry Ford, social reformer Jane Addams and Roger Baldwin who would found the ACLU. All in all it was quite a broad coalition and in Kazin’s mind they worked a miracle to keep the U.S. out of the war as long as it did in countering a pro-war movement headed up by Theodore Roosevelt. After all the Lusitania was sunk by a German U-boat in 1915 and under the aegis of the German ambassador, Germany was running a vast terror network on the east coast. That network caused the Black Tom explosion in New York Harbor which blew up munitions heading for England.

He argues that were it not for the anti-war movement the U.S. would have entered the war sooner causing countless more American deaths. I would argue to the contrary because, in my opinion, a U.S. entry say in early 1916 would have likely shortened the war and prevented the carnage on the eastern front that was to come.

My criticism of Kazin’s work is that he ignores the broad forces of history that made U.S. entry into the war inevitable. The U.S. as a rising power couldn’t really stay out and a Professor Adam Tooze has taught us that during 1916 economic power was being transferred from England to the U.S. Simply put the U.S. had too much at stake in an Allied victory as the Allies were head over in heels in debt to the U.S. and the war was engendering an economic boom. It was only a matter of time for the “peace candidate” Wilson to tip his hand. That happened in 1917 when Germany renewed unrestricted submarine warfare, the Zimmermann telegram was published indicating German overtures to Mexico and Tsar Nicholas II abdicated making it easy for Wilson to say that the war was about democracy. Put in a geopolitical context, no U.S. president would allow a Europe dominated by a hostile Germany.

Nevertheless Kazin tells a good story about an era in American history that has long been forgotten.
Broad coverage, and interesting players with powerful themes creates an atmosphere and mood that really connects the reader with a sense of what it was like to be there. A nice piece of story-telling non-fiction that ties in beautifully to recent times.
This is primarily of the pacifist sentiment that existed before and during the entry of the United States into WWI. It also goes through the literal trials and problems these segments of society had trying to spot this from happening. It also sets up the foundation of war protesters for all future conflicts.