Signed hardback book with dust jacket titled DISTURBERS OF THE PEACE by Colman McCarthy. (LL-base2-1-bottom-up-middle)

Disturbers of the peace;: Profiles in nonadjustment

MCCARTHY, COLMAN

Houghton, Mifflin Co.

A writer for the Washington Post for twenty-five years, Colman McCarthy is well respected as a pacifist, teacher, journalist, and advocate of nonviolence. In his twice-weekly columns which are nationally syndicated, he has extolled nonviolence as both a philosophy and a practical way of life. As a high-school, college, and law school teacher, he has taught the principles and history of nonviolence to more than three thousand students in the past decade. 
What McCarthy has written over the years is, as he puts it, all of one peace. His consistency of vision derives from the indwelling of nonviolence. He blames no one for the culture of violence in which we live, but for a quarter-century he has spoken out honestly and passionately against that culture. All of One Peace is a major part of the body of work that has come to stand for integrity, reason, and candor in a time marked by lies, violence, and absurdity.

All of One Peace: Essays on Nonviolence

History

Americas

Rutgers University Press

Teaching Peace: Students Exchange Letters with Their Teacher

To see if nonviolence could be taught, in 1982 Colman McCarthy became a volunteer teacher at one of the poorest high schools in Washington, DC. In the thirty-two years since then, he has taught peace studies courses for more than ten thousand college and high school students. Large numbers of those students have faithfully kept in touch with McCarthy, often with handwritten letters, and he has answered them with the same seriousness he brought to his columns and books. The exchanges rise to a rare kind of literature that blends personal warmth, intellectual honesty, and shared idealism.The discussions range from peace and war to a host of other issues of social justice, such as the death penalty, human rights, poverty, the living wage, animal rights, and vegetarianism. The wide-ranging letters suggest how teacher and students co-create a world of more love and less hate.

Education & Teaching

Higher & Continuing Education

Vanderbilt University Press

To see if nonviolence could be taught, in 1982 Colman McCarthy became a volunteer teacher at one of the poorest high schools in Washington, DC. In the thirty-two years since then, he has taught peace studies courses for more than ten thousand college and high school students. Large numbers of those students have faithfully kept in touch with McCarthy, often with handwritten letters, and he has answered them with the same seriousness he brought to his columns and books. The exchanges rise to a rare kind of literature that blends personal warmth, intellectual honesty, and shared idealism. 
 The discussions range from peace and war to a host of other issues of social justice, such as the death penalty, human rights, poverty, the living wage, animal rights, and vegetarianism. The wide-ranging letters suggest how teacher and students co-create a world of more love and less hate.

The Washington Post journalist discusses the famous and lesser-known poets, novelists, playwrights, political and social activists, philosophers, psychologists, saints, and other thinkers, who have become his inner companions.

Inner Companions

Biographies & Memoirs

Acropolis Books, Inc.

A syndicated journalist's collected essays and columns reveal his conviction that quality journalism often requires personal involvement with the subject at hand

Involvements: One Journalist's Place in the World

Professionals & Academics

When acclaimed Washington Post columnist Colman McCarthy was invited to teach a course on writing at an impoverished public school in Washington, D.C., he responded, I d rather teach peace. Thus began the work he has passionately pursued for the past 25 years teaching courses on nonviolence, conflict management, and peace studies. I d Rather Teach Peace chronicles one semester in six of these schools, as students find themselves challenged and inspired by an unconventional course and by a man who believes that if we don t teach our children peace someone else will teach them violence.

I'd Rather Teach Peace

Arts & Literature

Orbis Books

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

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Disturbers of the peace;: Profiles in nonadjustment

All of One Peace: Essays on Nonviolence

All of One Peace: Essays on Nonviolence

Teaching Peace: Students Exchange Letters with Their Teacher

Teaching Peace: Students Exchange Letters with Their Teacher

Inner Companions

Involvements: One Journalist's Place in the World

I'd Rather Teach Peace

I'd Rather Teach Peace