Waging War on WarThe notion that war plays a fundamental role in the United States' idea of itself obscures the rich and by no means nave seam of anti war thinking that winds through American culture. Non violent resistance, far from being a philosophy of passive dreamers, instead embodies Ralph Waldo Emerson's belief that peace "can never be defended, never be executed, by cowards." Giorgio Mariani rigorously engages with the essential question of what makes a text