The War Prayer
WarHistory
★ 0.0·2005·0h 14m
"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 p...
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Minister
Erik Bauersfeld
Stranger
Peter Coyote
Narrator
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DIRECTOR
Markos Kounalakis
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."