Fern Schumer Chapman

How far would you go to avoid being forced to kill?90 is the number that, on a cold December night, hijacks a young man’s future.The year is 1969; Bruce is 20, and 90 is his draft lottery number. The number that guarantees he’ll be drafted into the military—likely becoming a soldier in the Vietnam War.In this compelling memoir, one young man—an outsider among his privileged peers at Princeton University – questions everything he believes as his life is dramatically reshaped by an overwhelming moral dilemma. His father’s death deprives Bruce of the guidance he needs in this most masculine decision: whether to fight or declare himself a conscientious objector who refuses to kill. W...