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Mary Susannah Robbins, Ph.D., is the author of:
These prose sketches and stories are a swirling kaleidoscope of memory and fantasy, in which the most concrete and telling details of everyday experience swirl around a quest for the meaning of individual and social life. (Elderberry Press, 2011)
Price: $28.95 Media: Paper Published: May 2007 ISBN: 0-7425-5914-9 / 978-0-7425-5914-1 Length: 328pp
“Invaluable for reminding readers of the complexity within the antiwar movement. Robbins has composed an anthology with remarkable diversity in points of view, with due attention to resisitance to the Vietnam War within the military and by veterans, and with respect for the political capacities of everyday citizens.”– H-Net
“This is an outstanding collection of writings by anti-Vietnam war activists that gives a vivid sense of the range of principles and passions that motivated one of the largest and most influential social movements in American history. We hear from scholars and soldiers, senators and students, clergy, journalists, conscientious objectors, grassroots organizers and national mobilizers, some well-known and others from the rank-and-file of the movement. The result is a powerful compilation that should find a place on the reading lists for many courses on the Vietnam War, peace and justice, or the United States in the 1960s.” – William A. Joseph, professor of political science, Wellesley College and editor of Introduction to Comparative Politics, 4th Ed.
“There is no other book quite like this one and its importance has only grown over the years. We need to listen to these voices for they mirror a huge number of American lives. One is grateful for this sorrowful and wonderful record.” – Gloria Emerson, foreign correspondent for The New York Times in Vietnam from 1969 to 1972 and the author of National Book Award winner, Winners & Losers
Price: $29.95 Media: Paper Published: Mar 2008 ISBN: 0-7391-2497-8 / 978-0-7391-2497-0 Length: 282pp
“Peace Not Terror captures the voices of today’s leading thinkers and activists in the U.S. peace movement. The collection of essays is as varied and powerful as the reasons why it is imperative to do away with our culture of militarism in order to embrace peace. This book will affirm and strengthen the position of the antiwar reader, and will challenge those who still believe in war as a viable means to attain peace. It is a brilliant book, and an absolute must read." – Camilo Mejía, Iraq War veteran and resister, member of Iraq Veterans Against the War, and the author of Road from ar Ramadi: The Private Rebellion of Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejía
“In Peace Not Terror, Mary Susannah Robbins performs an important public service. By editing and publishing this collection of essays, Robbins not only brings together the voices of the antiwar movement in one user-friendly volume, but she reminds us of the movement's startling scale and diversity. In this book we hear from scholars and statesmen, victims and veterans. Most of all, we hear from patriots – people who know that preemptive war, the backdoor draft, torture, indefinite detention, and extraordinary rendition are un-American. Every citizen should read this book.” – Michael S. Foley, author of Confronting the War Machine: Draft Resistance during the Vietnam War
“This remarkable and indispensable book against U.S. militarism includes essays by Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Staughton Lynd, Dave Dellinger, and many others, including Iraq War veterans. These invaluable members of the peace movement show in their writings – and by their own personal stories – the way out of the cycle of violence that the U.S. military response to the events of 9/11 has created. From William Sloane Coffin's sermon on love delivered the Sunday after 9/11, to Jeff Jones, former Weatherman and now environmental actvist, who writes of the need to eliminate our oil consumption to prevent both global warming and war in the Middle East, these essays form a moving and inspiring guide to peace on this earth.” – Daniel Ellsberg, author of Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
“We veterans know that this war is not being sanitized on the nightly news. It has nothing to do with ther liberation of the people of Iraq; instead it has everything to do with the subjugation and domination of these people in the name of U.S. imperial economic and strategic interests.” – Matthew Howard, USMC, Chair of the Vermont Chaper of Iraq Veterans against the War
“Mary Susannah Robbins’s powerful book is the answer to those who ask what happened to the antiwar movement. The voices of that movement, past and present, speak passionately in the pages of Peace Not Terror, moving the reader to pay attention, to act and to speak out. It is essential reading in these dark and dangerous days, for it insists not only on the possibility but the necessity of protest.” – Marilyn Young, professor of history at New York University and author ofThe Vietnam Wars, 1945-1990
Price: $26.95 Media: Paper Published: Oct 2008 ISBN: 0-7391-2791-8 / 978-0-7391-2791-9 Length: 170pp
“I am enormously impressed with the quality of the writing and the extraordinary portraits she has drawn of the people who crossed her life's path.” – Howard Zinn
This memoir chronicles the life of Mary Susannah Robbins – poet, activist, and devoted daughter of famous mathematician Herbert E. Robbins. Her antiwar activism, beginning with her experiences during the Vietnam War and continuing into the present with the Iraq War, has given her a perspective from which to tell a unique story of American life.
Her childhood having been spent surrounded by such luminaries of the twentieth century as Albert Einstein, Aldous Huxley, and Alan Lomax, Robbins writes of the early influence that her parents and their colleagues had on her later call to activism in the 1960s. She discusses the relationships that guided her to become involved with various antiwar movements. Her personal reflections within this book form a powerful tribute to the many lives that have touched and been touched by her.
Amelie, a collection of poems and etchings (Ommation Press, 1987) Purchase here
Lance, A Vietnam Vet: A Love Story, poetry with color illustrations (Lulu Press, 2010) Purchase here
Against the Vietnam War and Peace Not Terror are collections of essays by, among others, Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Staughton Lynd, Dave Dellinger, William Sloane Coffin, H. Bruce Franklin, David Harris, David Cortright, Jane Bond Moore, Jeff Jones, JoAnn Wypijewski, and Vietnam War and Iraq War veterans.
Robbins runs an editorial service. Among books she has edited that have been successfully published are Impressionists Side By Side by Barbra Ehrlich White (Knopf) and Why Johnny Can’t Tell Right from Wrong: Cultural Illiteracy and the Case for Character Education by William Kirk Kilpatrick (Simon & Schuster).
Robbins has prints and paintings in The Fogg Museum, The Smith College Museum of Art, The Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, in the estates of Meyer Schapiro and Victor Weisskopf, and in private collections all over the world. View a gallery of her art work.
Robbins graduated from Harvard and received a Ph.D. in English Literature from Boston College. She has taught in the English Departments of Vassar College and Boston College.
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