SOURCE: An introduction to Peace and Bread in Time of War, by Jane Addams, King's Crown Press, 1945, pp. i-xx.

In the following essay, Dewey comments on the timely reissue of Peace and Bread at the end of World War II.

The present republication of Peace and Bread is peculiarly timely. Some of the external reasons for this timeliness are evident without need of prolonged analysis. The book is a record, searching and vivid, of human aspects of the First World War. It gives a picture of the development of American sentiment from 1914 to 1922, the year of its publication. It is a forceful reminder of things that would be unforgettable, did we not live on the surface of the current of the day's events. The book takes us through the period when the war seemed remote and unreal, and the American public reacted with incredulity and exasperation; through the...