About this Event
Join us for a conversation with Jeremey Varon to celebrate the release of his new book, a definitive history of the global protest movement against the War on Terror. He will be in conversation with author and journalist Liza Featherstore, followed by a signing.
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An original history of the popular movement against the War on Terror—the greatest case of “we told you so” in modern political history.
Just after 9/11, President George W. Bush climbed the rubble where the World Trade Center had stood. Surrounded by shouts of anger, he said, “The people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon!” With these words, Bush ushered in the War on Terror. Quickly, a global protest movement mobilized against it, reshaping the political, moral, and media landscape.
Jeremy Varon’s Our Grief Is Not a Cry for War is the definitive history of that movement. Millions of Americans participated in thousands of acts of protest, from demonstrations to civil disobedience to peace encampments in Iraq. On February 15, 2003, up to 30 million people worldwide took to the streets in the largest protest in human history. But this enormous outcry was not enough to stop the US invasion of Iraq. Varon explores the limits to the movement’s power but also shows how it worked to make opposition to the Iraq War a part of public debate, hastening its end and limiting the broader War on Terror. In the book, you’ll meet the families of the 9/11 victims, Iraq War veterans, and Gold Star families who spoke out against war.
Written with a lively and revelatory voice, Our Grief Is Not a Cry for War illuminates the passion of the peace movement, the mark it made, and the enduring legacies of the War on Terror.
Jeremy Varon is professor of history at the New School in New York City. He is the author of Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, The Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies (2004) and The New Life: The Jewish Students of Postwar Germany (2014). He is a lifelong peace activist, involved in efforts to close the US War on Terror Pr*son in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba
Liza Featherstone is an author, journalist, essayist, critic and teacher. She has written and reported extensively on left social movements in the United States. She is a columnist at Jacobin and The New Republic, as well as a contributing writer at The Nation. Featherstone is the author of Divining Desire: Focus Groups and the Culture of Consultation (O/R Books, 2018), and Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers’ Rights at Wal-Mart (Basic Books, 2004), among other books. She teaches writing at NYU and Columbia.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Rizzoli Bookstore, 1133 Broadway, New York, United States
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