The War Within: America's Battle over Vietnam - Softcover

Wells, Tom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0805044914 ISBN 13: 9780805044911

Publisher: Henry Holt & Co, 1996

Synopsis

The Vietnam war left a gash in the heart of America that can still be felt today. The War Within is the definitive history of America's internal battle over that war, and it chronicles, as no other book has done, the full story of how a powerful grassroots force--the antiwar movement--changed the course of American history.Tom Wells spent over ten years painstakingly researching government and antiwar-movement documents and interviewing virtually every key player from the Vietnam era--from Dean Rusk, William Westmoreland, and John Ehrlichman to Dave Dellinger, Philip Berrigan, and Daniel Ellsberg. Wells moves from protests at the White House gates to antiwar meeting halls, recreating the activities of the student factions, religious organizations, political splinter groups, and other organizations that waged campaigns of mass protest, draft resistance, civil disobedience, and sometimes political violence. Here, too, are the behind-the-scenes planning sessions of Democra

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From the Inside Flap

"Tom Wells' book is the War and Peace of the movement to end American involvement in Vietnam. Like Tolstoy, he offers a massive cast of characters and a plethora of detail, but also a coherent theme. For Wells, it is that the uprising of young American citizens succeeded in changing our Vietnam policy beyond their own recognition. . . . The anti-Vietnam war campaign proved conclusively that foreign policy is too important to be left to the experts."—Paul C. Warnke, Assistant Secretary of Defense, Johnson Administration

"This is our own history at its best, with original insights and a creative new perspective on events we only thought we knew. In the 1960s America confronted herself as never before, or after, and The War Within is a compelling portrait of that fateful meeting."—Roger Morris

About the Author

Tom Wells is the author of The War Within: America’s Battle over Vietnam and Wild Man: The Life and Times of Daniel Ellsberg.

Edition details

• Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0805044914
• ISBN 13: 9780805044911
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 706