The Home Front
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The Psychological War for Vietnam, 1960-1968
"...fully explores the most sustained, intensive use of psychological operations (PSYOP) in American history. In PSYOP, US military personnel use a variety of tactics--mostly audio and visual messages--to influence individuals and groups to behave in ways that favor US objectives. ....rare insight into the art and science of propaganda as a military tool in the twentieth century"
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The Home Front: Americans Protest the War by Call Number: DS559.62.U6 K35x 2001Publication Date: 2001 (San Diego, CA : Lucent Books)Introductory book arranged chronologically, covering the movements, teach-ins, marches, organizations, student rebellions, the politicians and anti-war figures of 1962-1973. -
Against the Vietnam War: Writings by Activists by Call Number: DS559.62.U6 A35 2007Publication Date: 2007 (Lanham, Md. : Rowman & LIttlefield)Writings by Daniel Berrigan [Catholic priest], David Dellinger [of the Chicago Seven], Martin Luther King, Howard Zinn [historian], Eugene McCarthy [Senator, 1968 Pres. candidate], Carl Oglesby [Students for a Democratic Society] and others. -
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers by Call Number: Online video via KanopyPublication Date: 2010 (New York, NY : First Run Features)"In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg, a high-level Pentagon official and Vietnam War strategist, concludes that the war is based on decades of lies, and leaks 7,000 pages of top secret documents to The New York Times, making headlines around the world...a political thriller... lays out the competing claims [press freedom v. national security] with a rare combination of objectivity and passion." -
Hardhats, Hippies, and Hawks by Call Number: DS559.62.U6 L49 2013 (also full-text online; click on title)Publication Date: 2013 (Ithaca ; London : ILR Press)"In the popular imagination, opposition to the Vietnam War was driven largely by college students and elite intellectuals, while supposedly reactionary blue-collar workers largely supported the war effort. Penny Lewis challenges this collective memory of class polarization. Through close readings of archival documents, popular culture, and media accounts at the time, she offers a more accurate "counter-memory" of a diverse, cross-class opposition to the war in Southeast Asia that included the labor movement, working-class students, soldiers and veterans, and Black Power, civil rights, and Chicano activists." -
Containment and Credibility: the Ideology and Deception that Plunged America into the Vietnam War by Containment and Credibility explores how the half-truths and outright lies of both the Johnson and Nixon administrations brought us into a conflict that cost more than fifty thousand American lives over eight years. As we consider how best to confront the growing threat of ISIS, it is increasingly important for the public to understand how we were convinced to go to war in the past. ..This book will show how this deception ultimately led to the unraveling of the Johnson presidency and will explore the credibility gap that led to the public political debate of that time. Containment and Credibility applies the lessons of the sixties to todayCall Number: DS 558.2 P76 2016Publication Date: 2016 (New York, NY : Carrel Books)
