Geoffrey Smith

To Reason Why

“Jeffrey Kimball's book, 'To Reason Why', was the best reader available when it first appeared. It still is. Kimball's volume contains a cross-section of documents and readings that bring to clear focus the defining moment of the second half of the twentieth century. The United States still has not come to grips with the Vietnam War, especially its lessons that suggest the limits of power and the dangers of militarism. I used the book two decades ago. It has not lost any of its power to force readers to consider, and reconsider, the origins and nature of the war, its conduct, and its legacies. Indeed, in light of American policy since 9/11, it is a source book for sanity in our dangerous world.”