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Illus. in full color. Brer Fox makes a boy out of tar, so when Brer Rabbit shakes hands, he'll get stuck. "About fifty sentences, with one or two per gracefully color-cartooned page, this tale is reduced to the most basic motifs, but it does respect the ones it keeps. It will be a book to hand to kids who clamor for a version they can read for themselves."-- Bulletin, Center for Children's Books.
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During the Vietnam War the author was a graduate student at West Virginia University, a conservative spot in a conservative state. No longtime protestor, Simons began to think about opposing the war after hearing war resister Dr. Benjamin Spock and learning of a soldier friend's death. The book describes, in numbing, blow-by-blow detail, Simons's trip through the Selective Service bureaucracy (he inflates his travails: ``the ordeal of mass physical examination''), his visit to a draft counselor, his attempt to seek a conscientous objector exemption, his arrest for refusing induction (``Incarceration seemed certain'' before his father came up with bail), his court case (complete with excerpts of legal documents) and his temporary, alienating exile in Canada. Simons, now a freelance writer, describes himself as an opponent of all wars yet hardly fleshes out his pacifism. His story is neither exceptional nor eloquent, and his attempts to blend national and world history with his personal struggle are awkward. Some readers, however, may profit from his final advice: ``If your heart tells you that it is wrong to kill, then refuse to do it.'' (Mar.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
《书目》(Booklist)书评
It would be unfortunate if Simons' engaging account of his moral resistance to the Vietnam war draft did not find an audience. The moral instruction he proffers is never sanctimonious. A liminal humor pervades it, in fact, and unlike the accounts of more politically correct doves and hawks, his is disarmingly ingenuous. Its local color (West Virginia in the 1960s) is absorbing (one wishes Simons had indulged it a bit more), and its capsule history of conscientious objection in America is illuminating. Simons, who never identified with the factions opposing the war, made his decision in relative isolation while besieged by an incessant flux of emotions over what was, after all, a protracted span of time. Two decades later, he does not forget or dissimulate his confusion and procrastination, irresolution and suspect motives. He portrays the graduate student in psychology he was as a convincing, instructive everyman. (Reviewed Mar. 1, 1992)0962002429Roland Wulbert
《图书馆杂志》(Library Journal )书评
The author traces his ten-year journey from graduate school in 1967 to his 1977 return from exile following a presidential pardon for draft dodgers. Simons's first work is a readable and effective story of the moral and political struggles that resulted in confrontations with family, friends, the local Selective Service Board, and the Supreme Court. A broader perspective can be found in Stephen Kohn's The History of American Draft Law Violators, 1658-1985 (Greenwood, 1986), a comprehensive collection of personal narratives. I Refuse is a focused and complete text with a 16-page introduction chronicling the history of draft resistance in the United States; an appendix that recaps the Vietnamese conflict, including opposition to the draft; and a balanced bibliography supplemented by a selected list of relevant U.S. Supreme and lower court cases. Recommended for public, high school, and academic libraries' subject collections.-- Pamela J. Peters, SUNY-SICAS Ctr., Oneonta (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.