2011

Monday, May 2nd

6:00pm

To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918

With a slide show of photographs, posters, vintage newsreel footage and a little music, Adam Hochschild gives a preview of his new book, To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918. In part, this is a master class on storytelling as he tells how, for this unusual account of the First World War, he chose a narrative strategy, scenes to describe, and characters through whom to tell the story. These include cabinet ministers, generals, conscientious objectors, feminists, a circus lion-tamer turned antiwar activist, and a number of journalists—ranging from those who wrote government propaganda to an editor who, in prison, published a clandestine newspaper for his fellow war resisters on toilet paper.

SPONSORED BY

The Graduate School of Journalism

LOCATION

Library - North Gate Hall

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