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My Name is Jody Williams
A Vermont Girl's Winding Path to the Nobel Peace Prize
Berkeley : University of California Press, [2013]
Format: Book
Description: xvii, 260 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Chronicles the life of the woman whose founding of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines led to a Nobel Peace Prize in 1997.
Series: California series in public anthropology ; 25.
Contents:
Prologue: October 10, 1997 -- If you could be anyone -- What do you mean I can't be the pope? -- A special place in hell -- Claude, Casey, and the Corvair convertible -- V-I-E-T-N-A-M, marriage, and Mexico -- The making of a grassroots activist -- The pamphlet -- Boots on the ground : Sandinista interlude -- Dinner with the death squad -- I thought I wanted a straight job-instead I got landmines -- Landmines and love -- The Ottawa Process and the 1997 landmine ban world tour -- Whirlwind : October 10 to December 10, 1997.
Subjects:
Williams, Jody, 1950-
Pacifists -- United States -- Biography.
Women Nobel Prize winners -- United States -- Biography.
Nobel Prize winners -- United States -- Biography.
Williams, Jody, 1950-
Pacifists -- United States -- Biography.
Women Nobel Prize winners -- United States -- Biography.
Nobel Prize winners -- United States -- Biography.
ISBN:
0520270258