Kathy Roth-Douquet: Book Tour

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Book Tour

September 13, 2006,
7:00 pm
Chicago Tonight
PBS Local - Live panel

September 14, 2006
5 pm - 7 pm
Chicago
Pritzker Military History Library

September 21, 2006
Washington, DC
12:00 - 1 pm
Center for American Progress

Sept. 25, 2006
Princeton, NJ
Woodrow Wilson School
4 pm - 5:30 pm
Princeton U

Sept 29, 2006,
Carbondale, IL
TBD

Oct. 5, 2006 Washington, DC
12:00 - 1 pm Library of Congress

Oct. 10, 2006 New Haven, CT Yale Univ - TBD

October 11 New York, NY Noon-2pm Columbia Univ, SIPA

New York Univ Law School TBD

Nov. 9-10 Boston, MA Tufts University

Dartmouth, NH Dartmouth College

Nov 14, 2006 Quantico, VA General Officer Wives Symposium TBD

Watch for the Great AWOL Ivy League College Tour! We take the argument and raise the challenge to the young people most noticeably AWOL from military service today

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Shopping can be patriotic, but citizenship requires more, Nov 8, 2006

This weekend, Americans will once again commemorate a national holiday with the ring of a cash register. ...And it makes sense. We are a nation that conflates patriotism and shopping...

Death never in vain, Oct 3, 2006

President Bush wants to stay the course in Iraq so that those who have died there will not have died "in vain."Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan urges us to pull out immediately to prevent more Americans from dying in vain. Bush and Sheehan have both got it wrong. ...

ABC NEWS: Absence of America's Upper Classes From the Military - Opinion by Kathy Roth-Douquet

Aug. 3, 2006 — Thanks to Sen. John McCain's youngest son checking into Marine Corps boot camp, the number of Congress members with enlisted children will skyrocket a whopping 50 percent. McCain's son Jim joins two other enlisted service members who have a parent in Congress (a few members of the officer corps are children of federal legislators).

Great review in The Washington Times by Brendan Conway

Sept 5, 2006. "It's old news that military service has all but disappeared among the upper classes. That's why no one is surprised to hear that Harvard -- which still bans ROTC -- graduated all of nine ROTC cadets this year (MIT hosts them down the river).
Not everyone suffers from outrage fatigue, though -- certainly not Kathy Roth-Douquet and Frank Schaeffer. The authors of "AWOL: The Unexcused Absence of America's Upper Classes from the Military -- and How It Hurts Our Country" are appalled at their peers' lack of knowledge, even rudimentary knowledge, of the military..."

Terrific column from Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun

Aug 24, 2006. "President Bush said Monday that the Iraq war is "straining the psyche of our country." What country is he talking about? The United States? If that's what the president thinks, he ought to get out of the house a little more.

Unless you're in the military, or related to someone who is, the only strain you're feeling from this war is - what? - the price of gasoline maybe? We have a great divide in this country - between the military culture and the civilian culture, and it has never been more pronounced than it is right now..."