Vietnam War: Introductory Sources: The Home Front

Introductory book arranged chronologically, covering the movements, teach-ins, marches, organizations, student rebellions, the politicians and anti-war figures of 1962-1973.

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.

"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."

How did the experience of the Vietnam War change the United States, not just in the 1950s through the 1970s, but through to today? What role do popular music and movies play in how we think of the Vietnam War? This two-volume set addresses these questions and many more, examining how the Vietnam War has been represented in media, music, and film, and how American popular culture changed because of the war.

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. ..