by Kathleen Wilkinson
Recommended Reading by Deahn Berrini
On Conscience and Action:
This is who Ghandi and Martin Luther King, Jr. read.
The Kingdom of God is Within You, Leo Tolstoy
A Confession and Other Religious Writings, Leo Tolstoy
To understand how Martin Luther King, Jr. put Tolstoy’s teaching into action, read this Pulitzer Prize winning trilogy, American in the King Years, by Taylor Branch:
Parting the Waters
At Canaan’s Edge
Pillar of Fire
On Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in returning soldiers:
Home From the War, Robert Jay Lifton
Recovering From the War, Patience H.C. Mason
Achilles in Vietnam, Jonathan Shay
On War
Fiction
The Illiad, Homer
The Odyssey, Homer
Regeneration
The Eye In the Door
The Ghost Road (Booker Prize Winner)--a trilogy by Pat Barker, a British writer.
Wilfred Owen, a poet, read anything you can get your hands on.
All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque-Maybe you had to read it in school, take another look.
Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell
Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
Going After Cacciato and The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien
Fatal Light, Richard Currey
Memoirs and Reporting
In Pharoah’s Army, Tobias Wolff
An American Requiem (National Book Award winner), James Carroll
Dispatches, Michael Herr
Viet Cong at Wounded Knee, the trail of a blackfoot activist, Woody Kipp
A Rumor of War (Pulitzer Prize winner), Philip Caputo