A Call to Conscience: The Anti-Contra War Campaign (Culture, Politics, and the Cold War)
The new book by Prof. Roger Peace, A Call to Conscience: The Anti-Contra War Campaign, is an important contribution to recording the true history of the era, unsullied by US government and media lies and disinformation. As such, I would recommend it as reading for the Occupy Movement for its lessons on how a decentralized movement can be made strong enough to stop a very motivated president (Ronald Reagan) from sending US troops to invade another country (Nicaragua). --Alliance for Global JusticeA ground-breaking book. If a hundred years from now the anti Contra War movement is included on the list of significant American protest movements, there is no question this book will be a major reason why. It clarifies our vision of the 1980s, refutes the dominant Reagan triumphalism, and shows contemporary America to be just as fraught with protest as the 1960s. --Andrew E. Hunt, author of The Turning: A History of Vietnam Veterans Against the WarWhat Roger Peace, adjunct professor of history at Tallahassee Community College, does very well in A Call to Conscience is remind Americans about a largely forgotten past when antiwar religious and secular groups, despite their many differences, dared challenge the Reagan administration's proxy war in Nicaragua aimed at defeating a left-wing government. --History News NetworkA valuable book. . . . Peace's book is the best book yet written on Reagan's antagonists in this, his most frustrating stalemate. It is well worth reading for those seeking to rethink the 1980s as something more than the Reagan era. --American Historical Review