
A Story of the Red Cross
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Narrated by:
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S. Patricia Bailey
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By:
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Clara Barton
Miss Barton tells the story of the first 25 years of the organization which she founded. The relief offered by the organization in the Texas Famine, the Mount Vernon Cyclone, the Johnstown Flood, the Sea Island Hurricane, and the Galveston Tidal Wave is discussed in detail. The stories become all the more dramatic because they are told in Clara Barton's own words and from her point of view as an eyewitness. She lived much that she did not write, but she wrote nothing that she did not live.
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In this way, listening to this book provided a glimpse of a road not taken in humanitarianism, which has been battered with criticism in recent years. It is a more moral and saintly road in which the work is at one and the same time glorified and yet tempered with humility, where the dignity of the person is central to the mission.
At the same, this book demonstrates the way early decisions around how political power might be maneuvered would later result in craven capitulation to the demands of dictators and murderous thugs in foreign lands. Barton was able to win over American political power with seeming ease, but the failure to criticize its abuses, and to insist that political leaders pick up the work she was taking on, would help set humanitarians on a apolitical path in grappling with challenges calling for political solutions.
All in all, this should be of interest to anyone writing on the history of humanitarianism, to critics of contemporary aid culture, and to humanitarian aid workers seeking a way to dignify the beneficiaries of their largesse.
~ Theo Horesh, author of The Holocausts We All Deny
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