Elites for peace; the Senate and the Vietnam War, 1964-1968

Reference & Research Book News, Feb, 2008

Elites for peace; the Senate and the Vietnam War, 1964-1968.

Stone, Gary.

U. of Tennessee Press

2007

302 pages

$37.00

Hardcover

DS558

The conventional story, when told at all, is that the US government was dragged kicking and screaming out of Vietnam by protests on the campuses and the streets, and rebellion in the ranks. Stone offers a different version. Certainly not all, he says, but an important number of US Senators opposed the war--some privately and a few publicly--from the beginning. He argues that it was their formal and informal opposition that allowed and even inspired the public protests and the eventual withdrawal by the executive.

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