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Title: Architects of Peace: Visions of Hope in Words and Images by Michael Collopy, Jason Gardner, Walter Cronkite ISBN: 1-57731-081-0 Publisher: New World Library Pub. Date: 30 October, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.56 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A fine repersentation of images and tributes to peace
Comment: In Architects Of Peace, photographer Michael Collopy set out to document the visions of over seventy of the world's great peacemakers - spiritual leaders, politicians, and artists alike. Architects Of Peace blends art and insights alike in a volume which blends his tritone photos of these people with essays reflecting their beliefs. From Jean-Michael Cousteau and Elie Wiesel to Joan Baez and others, this makes for a fine repersentation of images and tributes to peace.
Rating: 1
Summary: Is this a joke?
Comment: While it's great that so many people have been able to focus on those several truly extraordinary people mentioned in this book, the fact that Margaret Thatcher is listed as an 'architect of peace' is like saying Stalin just wanted civil rights for everybody. This is the same woman who turned her back on the vast majority of Britons and was the embodiment of Reaganite self-centeredness. How many people are unaware of her response when asked about rising heating costs for the elderly in Britain: "They have hats, don't they?". Are we to believe she belongs in the same book as Mother Theresa??! What insanity! Her inclusion not only casts credibility on the authors, but undermines the genuine acts of peace that are enacted daily by the extraordinary presences of teachers like Thich Nhat Hanh and others.
There is much good in this book, but to equate some of the most advanced spiritual practitioners with the likes of Thatcher and several movie stars is grossly arrogant, and smacks of only wanting to hob-nob with the rich and famous.
Follow the advice of the lovely comments below and read their recommendations. Just don't buy this one.
Rating: 5
Summary: Two men important in my personal journey are profiled
Comment: Cesar Chavez (pictured on the lower right hand cover of this book) and Arun Gandhi are two men who have been very important in my spiritual journey through life, and both are featured in this book.
Arun Gandhi is the Grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, and Arun now heads the "M. K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence" in Memphis, TN. I had the honor of meeting Arun Gandhi at a retreat several years back, and he has remained an important part of my life ever since; he has helped me better understand the world and better understand my life and the people involved in my life, and he has taught me that being "peaceful" and non-violent truly entails more than just refusing to fight and feeling good about onself.
As a little boy, from age four to age six, I lived with my family at "Colegio Cesar Chavez" in Mt. Angel, Oregon. Colegio Cesar Chavez was a "college without walls" program and in its day (1973-1983) it was the only "chicano" four-year college in the nation. It had correspondence students from as far away as New York and Canada. Cesar Chavez paid two visits to the campus, and I became quite emotional when my mother recently informed me that I had had the honor to actually meet him during one of the visits (of course, I was too young at the time to have known who I was meeting). So, Arun Gandhi and Cesar Chavez have been important in my life, they are both featured in this book, and they are both Gandhian. I can't help but feel that this book was made for me personally (I mean that "rhetorically," of course), since it creates something of a "continuum" in my personal journey, added to the fact that I was born on the Mahatma's birthday.
Another man who has been important in my journey is also profiled in this book: Thich Nhat Hahn. He is a Zen monk who was nominated by Martin Luther King Jr. for a Nobel Prize. His books, such as PEACE IS EVERY STEP, are beautifully written and have had a huge impact on my life. His works have helped me see deeper into the world around me.
As for the layout of the book itself, it is beautiful. The photographs are crisp and clear and honest, and the text is inspiring. I confess that there is one specific person profiled in this book that I feel may not truly have deserved to be in this company as I feel his persona has been constructed with personal glorification as its main goal, but who am I to ultimately make such a judgment? We find inspiration where we need to, and I'm sure this specific individual has inspired many people.
Further books that may interest the reader of this book are:
THE FORGOTTEN WOMAN by Arun Gandhi; this is about Kasturba Gandhi, wife of the Mahatma.
COLEGIO CESAR CHAVEZ by Carlos Maldonado; this book is about the college named for Cesar Chavez, the one I lived at as a child.
NOSOTROS: THE HISPANIC PEOPLE OF OREGON by the Oregon Counsel for the Humanities; this book profiles the Hispanic population of Oregon and highlights Cesar Chavez's impact on them (a section devoted to "Colegio Cesar Chavez" is included, with a picture of Cesar Chavez visiting the campus).
PEACE IS EVERY STEP by Thich Nhat Hanh; in my opinion, this is his definitive work on spiritual insight and inner peace.
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Title: Works of Love Are Works of Peace: Mother Teresa of Calcutta and the Missionaries of Charity by Michael Collopy, Teresa ISBN: 0898705614 Publisher: Ignatius Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1996 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Power of Nonviolence: Writings by Advocates of Peace by Howard Zinn ISBN: 0807014079 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Words of Peace: The Nobel Peace Prize Laureates of the Twentieth Century-Selections from Their Acceptance Speeches by Irwin Abrams ISBN: 1557045372 Publisher: Newmarket Press Pub. Date: 30 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Cultures of Peace: The Hidden Side of History by Elise Boulding ISBN: 0815628323 Publisher: Syracuse University Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Is There No Other Way?: The Search for a Nonviolent Future by Michael Nagler ISBN: 1893163164 Publisher: Berkeley Hills Books Pub. Date: 15 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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