Theory of War
Joan Brady
 It tells the story of Jonathan Carrick, sold into white slavery as a child in post-Civil War America and is based on the life of Joan Brady's own grandfather who himself was sold to a midwestern tobacco farmer for fifteen dollars. Cruelly treated by his master Alvah Stokes, it is Alvah's son George who becomes the object of a hatred that endures half a century. forced to submit, but never submissive, Jonathan's escape into a new life as a railroadman, then as an itinerant preacher, opens up a new world for him. But within him lies the need for revenge - a war against George, in fact - that must be safisfied Joan Brady explains &#34;Theory of War is an attempt to understand what my grandfather might have felt about what he&#39;d gone through, and what we - his descendents - still have to cope with because of it.