Humane : how the United States abandoned peace and reinvented war
(2021)
By:
Moyn, Samuel
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
341.6/MOYN,S
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
400 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780374173708, 0374173702 :, 0374173702, 9780374173708
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
The warning -- Blessed are the peacemakers -- Laws of inhumanity -- Air war and America's brutal peace -- The Vietnamese pivot -- "Cruelty is the worst thing we do" -- The road to humanity after September -- The arc of the moral universe -- Epilogue
"A history of how an international effort to outlaw war gave way to an effort to regulate it, with an emphasis on the role played by the United States"--