The Gadflier

While U.S. warplanes were pounding Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks, roving peaceniks affixed small placards to lampposts around Ground Zero in New York. On one of the black-and-white fliers, a weary World War II soldier stared from his foxhole.

"I'm digging my grave now," said the headline. "But soon it will be your turn. War: Get used to it."

This grim bit of agitprop caught the eye of Greg Ruggiero, senior editor at Seven Stories Press, a TriBeCa publisher that specializes in what he calls "socially conscious" books. He tracked down the poster maker's Web site, www.micahwright.com, which included a batch of Office of War Information artwork from the 1940s. But in a bold postmodern stroke, these posters -- which promoted War Bonds, scrap metal drives and home front security measures -- had been transformed into antiwar broadsides.
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