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David Harris was the most famous draft resister of the Vietnam War. A former student body president of Stanford University, he refused to accept induction and be sent to Vietnam. He spent nearly two years in a federal prison as a consequence. With his marriage to Joan Baez, he emerged as the leading moral voice of his generation.For the past two decades, he has largely remained silent as the anitwar movement he led stood accused by critics and pundits of everything from cowardice to frivolity. Now, in Our War, he speaks out in defense of a generation torn by the most divisive war in Americas history.Neither a history nor a memoir, though containing aspects of both, Our War is a compelling, even fevered account of stalking the war's moral shadow through the decades since its ignominious end. This is a one-of-a-kind look at who we were, what we did, why we did it, and what those actions made us, seen through the eyes of a unique and significant American figure and one of our most gifted writers.

"David Harris, perhaps this country's best-known imprisoned draft resister of the Vietnam era, has written a moving memoir of what the Vietnamese call 'the American War.'"

Warren Goldstein, New York Times Book Review, 09/29/1996

"...Harris' book seems tired and all too familiar, like some anthem of protest that people lit candles to in 1970."

Barry Bearak, Los Angeles Times Book Review, 09/08/1996

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