"Humorous, insightful. . . .  In this farcical novel, Wittner . . . shows what can happen when school administrators begin invoking business models. . . .  A well-paced university novel, certain to provide academics with many knowing chuckles." (Full review: What's Going On at UAardvark?)

—Kirkus Reviews

"What’s Going On at UAardvark? offers a satiric look at the contemporary university, full of humorous caricatures, as it tries to offer hope to discouraged progressives."

—The Satirist

"What’s Going On at UAardvark? is a must for anyone attending or teaching college."

—New Politics

"Administrative malfeasance, corporate greed, and faculty passivity spin out of control at UAardvark. . . . The bad guys are mercilessly lampooned."

—LA Progressive

"Through his skillful weaving of the seemingly absurd with the probable, Wittner concocts  a telling indictment of what is happening to public higher education."

—Dissident Voice

"There might not be an antidote for the corporate takeover of everything that either moves or stands still in America. [But] What’s Going On at UAardvark? makes a stab at it."

—Solidarity Notes

"What’s Going On at UAardvark? is a raucous romp of a novel that stands authority on its head and teaches the mechanics of a modern-day uprising.  It's a funny amd irreverent critique. . . .  You may just laugh out loud."

—Industrial Worker

Scholar, activist, and troubadour Larry Wittner has gifted us with his bold life’s journey for world betterment.  Vividly written and deeply moving, this timely, splendid book will inform and hearten everyone concerned about peace and freedom, justice, democracy, and human rights.”

—Blanche Wiesen Cook, author Eleanor Roosevelt and Distinguished Professor of History and Women’s Studies,
John Jay College & Graduate Center, CUNY

The season has come for memoirs of the children of the 1960s who became academics and changed the academy, and this memoir is a jewel of the genre:  wonderfully lucid, evocative, honest, unpretentious, precise, and interesting.  Larry Wittner’s splendid account reflects his deep good-spiritedness and describes his many years of activist struggle for peace and social justice.”

— Gary Dorrien, Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics, Union Theological Seminary;
Professor of Religion, Columbia University

It is fascinating to peer into the personal life of Lawrence Wittner -- the great chronicler of the antinuclear movement -- in this quite amazing autobiography.  He has lived an exemplary life, one that we all should try and emulate in our own individual ways.”

— Helen Caldicott, Founding President,
Physicians for Social Responsibility

Confronting the Bomb is a magnificent and engaging history of one of the most important movements in the past eighty years—the movement for the abolition of nuclear weapons. . . .  Its ebbs and flows, victories and defeats, strengths and shortcomings, are all described with skill and passion."

—Peace Magazine

In celebration of its 50th anniversary, Glen Harold Stassen and Lawrence S. Wittner have edited Peace Action . . . – a collection of essays written by many of the courageous men and women who led the group. . . .  Peace Action is in this fight for the long haul, and we are a better Nation and nation for it."

— Katrina vanden Heuvel, The Nation Online

Wittner’s impressively researched, clearly written, and balanced assessment of the antinuclear-weapons movement belongs on the shelf not only of every serious student of the nuclear arms race but also of everyone who is concerned about the safety of humanity.”

— American Historical Review

Wittner's book is a tour de force of scholarship . . . weaving together in an eloquent narrative the fruits of gargantuan archival research. . . .  Wittner's magisterial study . . . will undoubtedly constitute, for decades to come, the primary place to turn for reference, orientation, and insight into this protean upwelling of popular will."

— American Historical Review

This brilliantly written and prodigiously researched volume is an excellent example of multinational history."

An admirable and meticulous job of tracing the tempestuous history of the international peace movement, from the advent of the atomic bomb to the end of the Korean War.”

— American Historical Review

The best description that exists of efforts to promote disarmament around the globe.”

— Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

“A valuable contribution to American history.”

—American Historical Review

“A concisely written, thoroughly researched and insightful study.”

—Journal of American History

“An eye-opener. . . .  Probably the best such study available.”

—The Progressive

“A worthwhile synthesis of the modern period with a new and welcome emphasis on the domestic scene."

—American Historical Review

“This is a powerful and convincing history, and deserves a broad audience.”

—American Studies

“An immensely readable, often insightful, and penetrating study of postwar American society. . . .  Highly recommended.”

—History

“Meticulously researched and well-written. . . .  Utilizing recently released documents and a plethora of other published and unpublished materials, Wittner traces with skill and precision the formulation and implementation of American policy. . . .  Wittner has written an important book, rich in factual material and argument.”

—American Historical Review

“The best study we have of this subject.  Wittner . . . does an excellent job of telling what went on in Greece in the 1940s—and in London and Washington when Greece was on the minds of policy makers in those capitals. . . .  An extremely impressive variety of primary sources has been tapped . . . and one comes away appreciative both of Wittner’s capacity for deep research and his ability to integrate the resulting mass of nuts and bolts. . . .  The book [is] a fine, rich contribution to the literature of the Cold War.”

—Reviews in American History