Author: Zahn, Franklin,
Title: Deserter from Violence: experiments with Gandhi's truth.
Description: NY, Philosophical Library, (1984). VG PB. 75 yr old religious peace activist Zahn tells of his problems in putting Gandhian nonviolence into daily practice in his. revolutionary life. Raised a Christian Scientist & now a Quaker, Zahn strove to become God-centered with his own versions of twice-daily meditation, celibacy, vegetarianism & voluntary poverty. Zahn relates how building houses led to introducing blacks into segregated areas & to neighborhood opposition. He sailed into a forbidden nuclear test zone in the Pacific, organized a taxpayer's suit challenging the Vietnam war's tax on telephone service, was in a "symbolic blockage" of a munitions ship, etc.

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