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The War Prayer

Nov 7, 2005

0h 14m

★ 0.0

Overview

"In 1904, disgusted by the aftermath of the Spanish-American War and the subsequent Philippine-American War, Mark Twain wrote a short anti-war prose poem called "The War Prayer." His family begged him not to publish it, his friends advised him to bury it, and his publisher rejected it, thinking it too inflammatory for the times. Twain agreed, but instructed that it be published after his death, saying famously: None but the dead are permitted to tell the truth."

Genres

War

History

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Cast

Minister

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Stranger

Erik Bauersfeld

Narrator

Peter Coyote

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The War Prayer

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