The War Within (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Tom Wells
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: 1965-1975
- Setting: The United States
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: Social action, 1960’s, 1970’s, United States or Americans, Socialism, Protests or demonstrations, Social issues, Vietnam War, Liberalism, Watergate Affair
- Locales: United States
It would be an impossibility to write a complete history of the Vietnam antiwar movement, but freelance writer Tom Wells gives it a pretty good try. A sociologist who received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, he studied under New Left “heavy” Todd Gitlin, who has written a lucid “Foreword” that underscores how the war left a still-unhealed gash in the heart of the United States. Taking an encyclopedic rather than an analytic approach, and interweaving information about the activities of policy-makers as well as their critics, the author aims to...
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