Peace and Bread in Time of War, Jane Addams

First published in 1922 during the Red Scare, by which time Jane Addamss pacifist efforts had adversely affected her popularity as an author and social reformer, Peace and Bread in Time of War is Addamss eighth book and the third to deal with her thoughts on pacifism.
 
Addamss unyielding pacifism during the Great War drew criticism from politicians and patriots who deemed her the most dangerous woman in America. Even those who had embraced her ideals of social reform condemned her outspoken opposition to U.S. entry into World War I or were ambivalent about her peace platforms. Turning away from the details of the war itself, Addams relies on memory and introspection in this autobiographical portrayal of efforts to secure peace during the Great War. I found myself so increasingly reluctant to interpret the motives of other people that at length I confined all analysis of motives to my own, she writes. Using the narrative technique she described in The Long Road of Womens Memory, an extended musing on the roles of memory and myth in womens lives, Addams also recalls attacks by the press and defends her political ideals.
 
Katherine Joslins introduction provides additional historical context to Addamss involvement with the Womans Peace Party, the Womens International League for Peace and Freedom, and her work on Herbert Hoovers campaign to provide relief and food to women and children in war-torn enemy countries.