Confronting the war machine :draft resistance during the Vietnam War
- 作者: Foley, Michael S.
- 出版: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press ©2003.
- 稽核項: 1 online resource (xv, 449 pages) :illustrations.
- 標題: Protest movements , Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Protest movements -- United States. , Draft resisters , Insoumis , Guerre du Viêt-nam, 1961-1975 Contestation -- États-Unis. , Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Draft resisters -- United States. , Contestation , Vietnam War, 1961-1975 , Vietnamkrieg , Draft resisters. , Guerre du Viêt-nam, 1961-1975 Insoumis -- États-Unis. , Protest movements. , Guerre du Viêt-nam, 1961-1975 , Vietnam-oorlog. , Electronic books. , MilitaryVietnam War. , Dienstweigering. , HISTORY Military -- Vietnam War. , HISTORY , USA. , United States. , Kriegsdienstverweigerung , 1961-1975
- ISBN: 0807854360 , 9780807854365
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- 附註: Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-438) and index.
- 摘要: 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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Focusing on the draft resistance movement in Boston in 1967-68, this study argues that these acts of mass civil disobedience turned the tide in the antiwar movement by drawing the Johnson administration into a confrontation with activists who were largely young, middle-class, liberal, and from suburban backgrounds--the core of Johnson's constituency.
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