Steal This Hero: An Abbie Hoffman Love Song In Two Verses, One Chorus and a Coda    by Jack Preston King
Price: $0.99 USD. 4440 words. Published by New Paradigm Press  on March 17, 2010. .
Really?, I thought. Abbie Hoffman? The guy too dangerous to read? I remind you of him? By comparing me to Abbie, Mom had meant to insult me, to label me a full-fledged traitorous Anarcho-Communist freak.For me, what she'd done was hand me the keys to full membership in the Great Subversive WE. If I was to accept that membership, I reasoned, I'd better find out exactly who WE are. I stole the book.

Warriors, Peacemakers and the Embarrassing Question of Love: A Peacenik's Memoir of the 1991 Gulf War    by Jack Preston King
Price: $0.99 USD. 4100 words. Published by New Paradigm Press  on March 17, 2010. .
Of this I was certain: To meet the violent hysteria of war with an equally hysterical peace movement could only create an irreconcilable "Us-Them" situation. As with the war, there would have to be winners and losers. But to meet a hysterical world with an open heart might bring a lasting peace, an "Us-Us" situation in which everybody won. And to be so idealistic, so Utopian, was embarrassing...