
By Marc J. Gilbert
ISBN-10: 0275969096
ISBN-13: 9780275969097
Previous analyses of the scholar antiwar move through the Vietnam struggle have focussed nearly completely on a couple of radical scholar leaders and upon occasions that happened at a number of elite East Coast universities. This quantity breaks new floor within the therapy it gives evaluations of the warfare provided by way of conservative scholars, in its overview of antiwar sentiment between Midwestern and Southern students, and in its invesitgation of antiwar protests in American excessive faculties. It additionally presents clean perception via a dialogue of the ways that American motion pictures depicted the scholar hobbies and an exam of the function of girls and faith within the campus wars of the Sixties and Seventies.
The campus dimensions of the antiwar stream have been extra broad-based and extra various in club, roots, and approach than is frequently assumed. every one essay during this assortment strives not just to provide a fair-minded photograph of the effect of the Vietnam battle on campus, but in addition to supply balanced reflections on its value for modern physique politic. Contributing authors finish prime students at the war's impression on American society and artists heavily linked to that clash, Vietnam veteran, author, and poet W.D. Ehrhart and kingdom Joe McDonald, writer of the antiwar period anthem, i think Like i am solving to Die Rag.