The war within : America's battle over Vietnam / Tom Wells ; with a foreword by Todd Gitlin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wells, Tom, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements--United States.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975.

United States--Politics and government--1963-1969.

United States.

United States--Politics and government--1969-1974.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (626 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Open Road Distribution, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The War Within: America's Battle over Vietnam is a painfully engrossing and popularly written account of how the battle on the home front ended America's least popular war. This absorbing narrative, hailed by critics of every persuasion, is the fruit of over a decade's worth of research: the author sifted through mountains of government documents, press coverage, and transcripts of interviews he conducted with virtually all of the key players, both inside the U.S. government and among the dissenters who eventually brought the war to an end. In these pages the antiwar era comes to life through the words of scores of participants, both the famous and the forgotten, who speak with candor and passion about this tumultuous period. A remarkable story of a powerful grassroots movement and its influence on officials in Washington.

Contents:

Praise for The War Within: America's Battle Over Vietnam; Title Page; Contents; Foreword, by Todd Gitlin; Introduction; ONE 1965; War on the Edge; Seeds of a Movement; Quiet Escalation; "This Is No Longer a Casual Form of Campus Spring Fever"; "This Is Really War"; "A Colossal Blunder"; Carrying On; Cooperation or Combat? The International Days, the National Coordinating Committee, and the SANE March; A Christmas Bombing Pause; TWO 1966; Antsy Senators, Angry Buddhists, Concerned Clergy; "There Is Nothing You Can Teach a Dog That You Cannot Teach a Congressman"; "A Leftist Wrecking Crew"

Blood in the Windy StreetsLicking Wounds; SIX 1969: PART I; The Madman and the Taps; Down but Not Out; Troubled Ted; "The Sectarianism Is Staggering"; "The Youth Problem"; Communist Dupes and Spoiled Children; Tackling the Youth Problem; Planning an Autumn Attack: The Vietnam Moratorium and New Mobe; Weathermania; Other Summer Voices; SEVEN 1969: PART II; "The Campuses Are Gonna Blow"; Blunting the Moratorium and Mobe; "I Can't Believe That a Fourth-Rate Power Like North Vietnam Doesn't Have a Breaking Point"; Desperate Dan; More Defections

"They Are All with SDS. They Are All Fucking Crazy!"Moratorium; Nixon Blinks; Isolating the Black Sheep; The "Showdown"; Restless Victors Revisited; EIGHT 1970; Before the Storm; "We're Dealing with the Criminal Mind"; "I'll Show Them Who's Tough"; The Storm; Damage Control; May 9: "A Picnic in the Park"; More White House Game-Planning; The Death of the Mobe; After the Storm; No More Appeasement; Decline; Radical Liberals, Terrorists, and Thugs; NINE 1971; "The Next Six Weeks Will Determine the Future of Western Civilization"; "We've Got Our Officers Tightened Up!"; A Tenuous Alliance

"It Doesn't Take That Many Terrorists to Block All the Traffic Arteries"

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 21, 2016).

ISBN:

9781504029339

150402933X

OCLC:

934769811