"I REFUSE is a focused and complete text...a readable and effective story of the moral and political struggles that resulted in confrontations with family, the Selective Service and the Supreme Court."

--Library Journal

 

"The moral instruction is never sanctimonious...a liminal humor pervades it, and unlike the accounts of more politically correct doves, his is disarmingly ingenuous."

--Booklist

 

"Engaging...one of the more valuable works in shedding light on draft resistance during this period."

--Small Press Book Review

 

"An excellent book for young adult readers."

--Kliatt Book Guide

 

"Heartbreaking, vivid, fiery, revelatory, modest--such words occur in reading I REFUSE."

--Daniel Berrigan

 

"I REFUSE reads like an engrossing mystery novel. I couldn't stop reading it to find out what would happen next."

--David Dellinger

 

"A book that needed to be written, a chapter of history which must not be forgotten. A gripping personal account of the struggle for individual conscience in a deathly bureaucratic system."

--Stephen M. Kohn, author of Jailed For Peace

 

"...a carefully-chronicled and moving account of one man's resistance to participation in the Vietnam War."

--Lawrence S. Wittner, author of Rebels Against War

 

"Intended...to give strength to women and men who are considering conscientious objection. Earnest in tone."

--Minnesota Library Association Newsletter

 

"Excellent for high school and college students."

--The Nonviolent Activist