Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, and Public Life at UCSB present:

Aaron Glantz, author of "How American Lost Iraq" discusses his new book:
“The War Comes Home: Washington's Battle against America's Veterans”

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"The War Comes Home: Washington's Battle against America's Veterans" is the first book to systematically document the U.S. government's neglect of soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Aaron Glantz, who reported extensively from Iraq during the first three years of this war and has been reporting on the plight of veterans ever since, offers a devastating indictment of the Bush administration for its blatant neglect of soldiers and its disingenuous reneging on their benefits.

Glantz interviewed more than one hundred recent war veterans, and here he intersperses their haunting first-person accounts with investigations into specific concerns, such as the scandal at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. This timely book does more than provide us with a personal connection to those whose service has cost them so dearly. It compels us to confront how America treats its veterans and to consider what kind of nation deifies its soldiers and then casts them off as damaged goods.

Courtesy of Borders, copies of "The War Comes Home" will be available for purchase and signing.

Congresswoman Lois Capps will make opening remarks at this free, public event.

Speaker Profile:

Aaron Glantz is an independent journalist who writes about the impact of war on those who have experienced it directly: soldiers and civilians, aid workers and journalists. He reported extensively from inside Iraq from 2003 to 2005 and has been covering veterans’ issues since his return to the United States. His work has appeared in "The Nation," "The Progressive," "San Francisco Chronicle," "The American Prospect," "Forbes," "Inter Press Service," "Alternet" and on "Democracy Now!" and "Yahoo! News."

Currently he is a Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellow at the Carter Center and a Fellow at the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media at Columbia University Teachers College. In addition to "The War Comes Home", he is author of the San Francisco Chronicle bestseller, "How America Lost Iraq" (2005), and co-author of "Winter Soldier Iraq and Afghanistan" published in collaboration with Iraq Veterans Against the War (2008).

-- Dr. Leonard Wallock, Associate Director Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, and Public Life 3074 Humanities and Social Sciences Building University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3130 Phone: (805) 893-2317 Fax: (805) 893-2059 E-mail: leonard.wallock@cappscenter.ucsb.edu Web site: http://www.cappscenter.ucsb.edu