Peace Now! by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

Peace Now! by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

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How did the protests and support of ordinary American citizens affect their country's participation in the Vietnam War? This study focuses on four social groups - students, African Americans, women and unions - and investigates the impact of each on American foreign policy during the War.

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Peace Now! by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

How did the protests and support of ordinary American citizens affect their country's participation in the Vietnam War? This study focuses on four social groups - students, African Americans, women and unions - and investigates the impact of each on American foreign policy during the War.
"Destined to become required reading for university students of US. foreign policy." Peter Ling, Times Higher Education Supplement "This highly original book makes an excellent contribution to social history. It is a subtle, complex study of both politics and protest movements in the late 1960s and early 1970s." W. J. Rorabaugh "Many books have been written on the anti-Vietnam movement, but none quite like Jeffreys-Jones's most interesting and imaginative Peace Now!... an intelligent and nuanced narrative." Melvin Small, Choice"
Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, professor of American history at the University of Edinburgh, is the author of many books, including The CIA and American Democracy, published by Yale University Press.
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ISBN 13 9780300089202
ISBN 10 0300089201
Title Peace Now!
Author Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Yale University Press
Year published 2001-02-08
Number of pages 320
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