Peace

Peace
By Ken Kolsbun and Michael S. Sweeney
Hardcover, 176 pages ($25)

For five decades, it’s cropped up around the world—printed on banners, hoisted on signs, scrawled on walls, painted on faces—as an emblem of unity and harmony. But where did the now-ubiquitous peace symbol begin? This engrossing words-and-pictures exploration, timed to coincide with the symbol’s 50th anniversary in April, is a colorful journey into the story of one of mankind’s most universally recognized icons, born when a British peace-activist designer combined the semaphore signals for the letters “N” and “D,” for nuclear disarmament.
—Neil Pond, American Profile

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