Antiwarriors: The Vietnam War and the Battle for America's Hearts and Minds

Antiwarriors: The Vietnam War and the Battle for America's Hearts and Minds

by Melvin Small
Antiwarriors: The Vietnam War and the Battle for America's Hearts and Minds

Antiwarriors: The Vietnam War and the Battle for America's Hearts and Minds

by Melvin Small

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Overview

The antiDVietnam War movement marked the first time in American history that record numbers marched and protested to an antiwar tune_on college campuses, in neighborhoods, and in Washington. Although it did not create enough pressure on decision-makers to end U.S. involvement in the war, the movement's impact was monumental. It served as a major constraint on the government's ability to escalate, played a significant role in President Lyndon B. Johnson's decision in 1968 not to seek another term, and was a factor in the Watergate affair that brought down President Richard Nixon.

At last, the story of the entire antiwar movement from its advent to its dissolution is available in Antiwarriors: The Vietnam War and the Battle for America's Hearts and Minds . Author Melvin Small describes not only the origins and trajectory of the antiDVietnam War movement in America, but also focuses on the way it affected policy and public opinion and the way it in turn was affected by the government and the media, and, consequently, events in Southeast Asia.

Leading this crusade were outspoken cultural rebels including Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, as passionate about the cause as the music that epitomizes the period. But in addition to radical protestors whose actions fueled intense media coverage, Small reveals that the anti-war movement included a diverse cast of ordinary citizens turned war dissenter: housewives, politicians, suburbanites, clergy members, and the elderly.

The antiwar movement comes to life in this compelling new book that is sure to fascinate all those interested in the Vietnam War and the turbulent, tumultuous 1960s.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780742583917
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date: 09/01/2002
Series: Vietnam: America in the War Years
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 183
File size: 432 KB

About the Author

Melvin Small has taught and lectured about the peace movement for three decades. Past president of the Council on Peace Research in History, he teaches at Wayne State University and is the author of several books on the Vietnam War including Johnson, Nixon, and the Doves and Covering Dissent.

Table of Contents


Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 List of Abbreviations
Chapter 3 The Origins of the Movement
Chapter 4 The Americanization of the War
Chapter 5 Building a Base
Chapter 6 Becoming a Mass Movement
Chapter 7 Hey, Hey, LBJ
Chapter 8 Confronting Nixon
Chapter 9 Halting Escalation
Chapter 10 The War and the Movement Wind Down
Chapter 11 Conclusion
Chapter 12 Bibliographical Essay
Chapter 13 Index

What People are Saying About This

Terry Anderson

Lucid, cogent, and insightful, this book is ideal for anyone who wants to know how and why Americans opposed their own government over the long and tragic war in Vietnam.
— author of The Movement & the Sixties and The Sixties

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