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Telltale hearts : the origins and impact of the Vietnam antiwar movement / Adam Garfinkle.
Author
Garfinkle, Adam M., 1951-
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Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/Created
New York : St. Martin's Press, 1995.
Description
xiii, 370 pages ; 25 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
DS559.62.U6 G37 1995
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975
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Protest movements
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United States
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Radicalism
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United States
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History
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20th century
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United States
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Politics and government
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20th century
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Summary note
More than two decades after the end of the Vietnam War, America's wounds have yet to heal; the war's divisiveness continues. Yet today, even the most hard-line hawks and doves share the conviction that, for better or worse, the antiwar movement played an important role in turning American opinion against the war, thereby limiting and ultimately ending U.S. military activity in Southeast Asia. In Telltale Hearts, Adam Garfinkle convincingly demonstrates that this widely accepted view is wrong. Garfinkle argues that the movement, even at its radical height, had but a marginal impact on limiting and ending the war and in fact unwittingly helped to prolong it, thereby killing more people on both sides. The movement, in the end, was simply not as important as other factors, such as the contours of normal electoral politics, the ebb and flow of battle, and the devastating misjudgments made by a series of American civil and military leaders. However, by following the movement into the present, the author concludes that it has in fact had a powerful, and greatly underestimated, postwar influence.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-360) and indexes.
Contents
Ironies of protest
American traditions of dissent and the Vietnam generation
Evolution of the movement: liberals and the left
Groundswell
Sources of sixties radicalism
Best of times, worst of times
Denouement: tin soldiers and Nixon coming
Vietnam as metaphor, 1975-92
Back in the street: Vietnam and the Kuwait war
Truths and consequences
Epilogue: McNamara's lament.
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ISBN
0312125208
9780312125202
LCCN
94039655
OCLC
31330359
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