A MIGHTY CASE AGAINST WAR

Written by Kathy Beckwith

Narrated by Kathy Beckwith and Wayne Beckwith

Beckwith relates a history of America's wars that includes "What America Missed in U.S. History Class." She details why war sells, the fallacies of common justifications for war, true costs of war, and sensible alternatives. Beckwith does not side-step the tough questions: What about Hitler? And genocide? If not war, then what? A MIGHTY CASE AGAINST WAR proposes that this culturally supported, deeply entrenched system of governmental violence is simply too costly, destructive, counterproductive, and inhumane to leave unchallenged. This is a resource for youth and adults alike – from peacebuilding activists to career military to those who doubt that a world beyond war is even possible. Audiobook narration invites the listener, through the author’s words and voice, to explore not just a past from which to learn, but a future full of hope for America and for our world.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Author's Republic
• Release date: Nov 9, 2017
• ISBN: 9781518993947

Kathy Beckwith

Author Kathy Beckwith grew up on an Oregon farm. After college, she and her husband Wayne went to India with the Peace Corps to work in village horticulture. Later, a boarding school in South India became home to their family. Back in the U.S., Kathy became a community mediator, a mediation trainer and school mediation coach, a work she has done for nearly three decades in Oregon, and also in India. Their "family sabbatical" tradition has taken them back to "their school" and always back to their Peace Corps village in Karnataka. Like Annie in her young adult novel ENCOUNTER, after discovering another meaning for "Animator," Kathy says, "That's what I hope to be when I really grow up." Kathy is a graduate of Northwest Nazarene University, Nampa, Idaho (Business Administration), and did a semester of advanced study with the University of the Seven Seas (now "Semester at Sea"). She is a mom and grandma, and a picker of blackberries and baker of berry pies in the summer. She loves to look for "singing places" (which she always tries out), and likes walking on the country road near their home.