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1 online resource (xv, 449 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction: Draft Resistance in American Memory -- Toward a Movement -- A Little Band of Bold Pioneers -- The Draft as a Political Issue and a Movement Target -- October 16: A Resolute Show of Moral Force -- Confrontations and Misconceptions -- Filtered Resistance: Draft Resisters' Image and Reality -- Uneasy Waiting: Draft Resisters and the Johnson Administration -- Getting by with a Little Help from Their Friends -- Peaks, Valleys, and the Changing Horizon -- A New Beginning: Confrontation, Renewal, and Triumph -- Spring 1968: A Hothouse Atmosphere -- Beyond Draft Resistance: New Strategies and Dangling Men |
| Summary |
Shedding light on an understudied form of opposition to the Vietnam War, Michael Foley tells the story of draft resistance, the cutting edge of the antiwar movement at the height of the war's escalation. Unlike so-called draft dodgers, who evaded the draft by leaving the country or by securing a draft deferment by fraudulent means, draft resisters openly defied draft laws by burning or turning in their draft cards. Like civil rights activists before them, draft resisters invited prosecution and imprisonment. Focusing on Boston, Foley reveals the crucial role of draft resisters in shifting antiwar sentiment from the margins of society to the center of American politics. Their actions inspired other draft-age men opposed to the war--especially college students--to reconsider their place of privilege in a draft system that offered them protections and sent disproportionate numbers of working-class and minority men to Vietnam. This recognition sparked the change of tactics from legal protest to mass civil disobedience, drawing the Johnson administration into a confrontation with activists who were largely suburban, liberal, young, and middle class--the core of Johnson's Democratic constituency. Examining the day-to-day struggle of antiwar organizing carried out by ordinary Americans at the local level, Foley argues for a more complex view of citizenship and patriotism during a time of war |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-438) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Draft resisters -- United States
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- United States
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HISTORY -- Military -- Vietnam War.
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Draft resisters
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Protest movements
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Vietnamkrieg
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Kriegsdienstverweigerung
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Vietnam-oorlog.
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Dienstweigering.
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15.85 history of America.
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Guerre du Viet-Nam (1961-1975) -- Mouvements contestataires -- États-Unis.
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Guerre du Viet-Nam (1961-1975) -- Mouvements contestataires -- Etats-Unis.
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United States
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USA
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2002010967 |
| ISBN |
0807862436 |
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9780807862438 |
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9780807827673 |
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0807827673 |
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9780807854365 |
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0807854360 |
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