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Give Peace a Chance: Exploring the Vietnam Antiwar Movement (Syracuse Studies on Peace and Conflict Resolution) - Hardcover
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This work offers an introduction to the best-known antiwar movement in United States history, written by veterans of the Vietnam War and participants in the movement. It examines how the activities of the movement affected the lives of most Americans.
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Written by veterans of the Vietnam War and participants in the organized opposition to it, this book examines how the activities of America's most important antiwar movement affected the lives of its citizens and its government.
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This collection of 14 essays, generated by a 1990 conference on the Vietnam antiwar movement, analyzes movement strategies, the role of the military and women in resistance, and the movement in the schools. While the essays contain much useful information, including some new material based on oral histories, they lack the narrative drive of less academic histories. A few of the contributions stand out: historian Maurice Isserman, analyzing the triumph of militance over pacifism in Students for a Democratic Society, says that its rank and file was more diverse and less radical than the leadership; peace activist David McReynolds reflects on how more radical social critics shook pacifists' ``unexamined'' view of America; David Cortwright, a former soldier-activist, traces the socioeconomic profiles of GIs who practiced dissent and disobedience, noting that volunteers opposed the war more than draftees. Particularly stimulating is historian Kenneth J. Heineman's portrait of Kent State University, which, contrary to myth, had been a hotbed of activism. Small wrote Resort to Arms ; Hoover is a professor of history at the University of Toledo.
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- PublisherSyracuse University Press
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0815625588
- ISBN 13 9780815625582
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages328
- EditorHoover William D.
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GIVE PEACE A CHANCE: EXPLORING THE VIETNAM ANTIWAR MOVEMENT
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Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY, 1992
ISBN 10: 0815625588
ISBN 13: 9780815625582
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Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, xxi, 300 pages. In Very Good minus condition, lacking issued dust jacket. Bound in gray cloth boards, with emerald lettering to spine and front board. Mild shelf wear to boards, including bumping to head and corners, and creasing down middle of spine. Interior clean. Shelved Vietnam War. 1384516. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Seller Inventory # 1384516
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