Excerpts from reviews of Contesting Patriotism: Culture, Power and Strategy in the Peace Movement, by Lynne M. Woehrle, Patrick G. Coy, and Gregory M. Maney, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2009. Contesting Patriotism is a 234-page serving of some much needed analysis of the modern American peace movement, more specifically, how it has managed to play an important role in balancing the popular discourse about war and patriotism. . . . It is a work of great significance in an area of research that, as the authors themselves point out, has been neglected for far too long. — Professor Ellis Jones, in Contemporary Sociology, December 2009 How to persuade Americans, who are legitimately worried about terrorist attacks, that our current policies provoke more terrorism and are not in the national interest? The authors here make a valuable contribution to the study of how peace and justice movements grapple with these important questions. In the process, they also show it is time for the universities to devote more resources to conflict resolution studies. — Tom Hayden, co-founder of SDS, legislator, author of Writings for a Democratic Society Contesting Patriotism is a bombproof, peer-reviewed academic study on the ways the peace movement has responded to war and threats of war in its messaging. It gives examples of the strongest antiwar/pro-peace arguments from different approaches, explains reasoning for framing arguments, and categorizes arguments according to their characteristics....The authors combed through a great deal of peace group arguments and isolated the strongest persuasive writing, contextualized it, and compared contexts. — Professor Tom Hastings, in Win Magazine, Summer 2010 Woehrle, Coy, and Maney combine both their academic interests and their personal experience in developing a very clear assessment of the ways in which major groups in the peace movement have advanced this cause in their publications over the past 20 years.... Woehrle, Coy, and Maney provide rich, deep, but fully accessible research that will sharpen our focus, increase our effectiveness, and provoke our community to great coherence through self-reflection and cross- movement dialogue. — Fellowship, Spring 2010 This is the book that shows how activists fight to define what patriotism means. Grabbing ideas, words, and images from mainstream politics, activists show how you can love your country without turning a blind eye to injustice and violence. This is must reading for anyone who wants to understand the peace movement, and, for that matter, any social movement in America. -- Professor David Meyer, University of California, Irvine. (continued)