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The pacifists misjudged Hitler, writes reviewer Glenn C. Altschuler. But, he notes, they also pressed for change in prisons and mental hospitals; protested the forced evacuation of Japanese Americans to camps; demanded that the Roosevelt administration do more to save European Jews. They founded the Congress for Racial Equality and helped make nonviolent mass protest a foundational strategy for the civil rights movement. They taught Americans to be wary of authority, consolidation and dehumanization.

NONFICTION: The little-known story of pacifist activism during World War II, told through the lives of four people.

Arthur Brooks’s new book on aging shows how a healthy awareness of one’s own mortality can influence personal and professional lives for the better.