My name is Jody Williams : a Vermont girl's winding path to the Nobel Peace Prize

Williams, Jody 1950- (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780520270251 (alk. paper)
Physical Description: pages cm.
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Edition: First Edition.
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2013.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

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 -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Illustrations follow page.