Human Rights Book Discussion

The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top Secret Military Research Agency by
Annie Jacobsen

Discover the definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, in this Pulitzer Prize finalist from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51.

No one has ever written the history of the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial military science R&D agency. In the first-ever history about the organization, New York Times bestselling author Annie Jacobsen draws on inside sources, exclusive interviews, private documents, and declassified memos to paint a picture of DARPA, or "the Pentagon's brain," from its Cold War inception in 1958 to the present.
This is the book on DARPA -- a compelling narrative about this clandestine intersection of science and the American military and the often frightening results.

The theme is non-violence. Since the library only a few copies each of the books, choose any one.

Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968 by Thomas E. Ricks

This Is An Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-first Century by Mark Engler

Nonviolence: 25 Lessons From the History of a Dangerous Idea by Mark Kurlansky

After Gandhi: One Hundred Years of Nonviolent Resistance by Anne Sibley O'Brien