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Perry Edmond O'Brien
Biography: Perry Edmond O’Brien is a former Army medic who served in Afghanistan and received an honorable discharge as a conscientious objector. He is the founder of www.peace-out.com, a website that helps servicemen navigate the conscientious objector application process. Perry majored in political theory at Cornell University and now works as a labor organizer in New York City.

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After Gandhi: One Hundred Years of Nonviolent Resistance
Author / Illustrator: Anne Sibley O'Brien   Author: Perry Edmond O'Brien
ISBN: 978-1-58089-129-5
Ages: 
9 - 12
Availability: In stock.
Price: $24.95
This book explores the work of Mohandas Gandhi and his legacy through fifteen profiles of activists who chose nonviolent resistance as the path to change. The book focuses on heroic individuals who were in direct physical danger and chose to respond with nonviolence.

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"This mother-and-son effort earns high marks both for adding less-celebrated names to the pantheon of peacemongers and for noting that the nonviolent approach to civil protest doesn't always work—which makes the courage of those who engage in it all the more exemplary."
--Kirkus Reviews


ERRATA

Pages VI and 89:
The year is listed as 1967. This should read 1976.
Running footers between pages 91-95 also list the year incorrectly as 1967.
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