Robert E. Sherwood: The Playwright in Peace and War (Book)
Title: Robert E. Sherwood: The Playwright in Peace and War
Author: Harriet Hyman Alonso
Abstract: This biography of the playwright, Robert E. Sherwood covers his transition from a young man intent on fighting in World War I into an interwar era pacifist and then again into a World War II proponent. During WWII, he served as speech writer for FDR and an official in the Office of War Information. After the war, he supported peace but a took a strong anticommunist position.
Year: 2007
Primary URL: http://www.umass.edu/umpress
Primary URL Description: This is the website for the University of Massachusetts Press.
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9781558496194

The Transformation of Robert E. Sherwood from Pacifist to Interventionist (Article)
Title: The Transformation of Robert E. Sherwood from Pacifist to Interventionist
Author: Harriet Hyman Alonso
Abstract: The playwright Robert E. Sherwood is most known for his powerful antiwar voice on Broadway during the late 1920s and 1930s. As fascism spread in Europe, however, Sherwood evolved from a pacifist into an interventionist. Largely relying on his diary entries and his three Pulitzer Prize-winning plays, "Idiot's Delight" (1936), "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" (1938) and "There Shall Be No Night" (1940), this article traces Sherwood's sea change from staunch pacifist to determined interventionist.
Year: 2007
Primary URL: http://blackwellpublishing.com/PECH
Primary URL Description: This is the website for the publisher of the journal Peace & Change
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Peace & Change: A Journal of Peace Research
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing

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