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<p>Staughton&nbsp;Lynd was always in the trenches fighting for a better world, and for that he remains a &ldquo;admirable radical&rdquo; and, for that matter, a beautiful person.</p>

Daniel Akst discusses 'War By Other Means,' a portrait of four World War II pacifists, including Bayard Rustin and Dorothy Day, who changed American culture.

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.

<p>Staughton&nbsp;Lynd was always in the trenches fighting for a better world, and for that he remains a &ldquo;admirable radical&rdquo; and, for that matter, a beautiful person.</p>

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