"The essays contain much useful information, including some new material based on oral histories."—Publishers Weekly
"The book, a compilation of 14 essays, includes longtime VVA member Bill Crandell's history of Vietnam Veterans Against the War and Vietnam veteran and Texas A&M history professor Terry H. Anderson's look at the way the brass responded to antiwar GIs. The GIs chapters provide a mass of information about the desperate GI movement during the war."—The Veteran
Description
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.
Relying on oral histories and recently available archival material, the authors consider the movement’s strategies and tactics, its leaders and its rank and file, and describe the difficulties encountered by peace activists in their efforts to build politically effective organizations. What emerges from this collection is that the millions of Americans who fought against the government’s policies in Southeast Asia participated in one of the most potent—and complex—oppositional movements in modern history.
About the Author
Melvin Small is professor of history at Wayne State University and president of the Council on Peace Research in History. His other books include Resort to Arms, Was War Necessary?, and Johnson, Nixon, and the Doves.
William D. Hoover, professor of history and department chair of the University of Toledo, has published articles on Japanese diplomacy and entrepreneurship and served as the Asian editor for the Biographical Dictionary of Modem Peace Leaders.
July 1992