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Vietnam and the American political tradition, the politics of dissent, edited by Randall B. Woods

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Vietnam and the American political tradition

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edited by Randall B. Woods

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the politics of dissent

This volume is intended to demonstrate how opposition to the war in Vietnam, the military-industrial complex, and the national security state crystallized in a variety of different and often divergent political traditions. Indeed, for many of the figures discussed, dissent was a decidedly conservative act in that they felt that the war threatened traditional values, mores, and institutions, even though their definitions of what was sacred differed profoundly. To an extent many of the dissenters treated in this volume were at one time Cold War liberals. During the course of the Vietnam War, they came to see the foreign policy which they were supporting, with its willingness to invoke the democratic ideal and at the same time tolerate dictatorships in the cause of anticommunism, as morally and politically corrupt. Most dissenters increasingly came to perceive cold war liberalism as a radical departure that threatened the fundamental ideals of the republic.--, Provided by publisher

Anti-imperialism in U.S. foreign relations / Frank Ninkovich -- World War II, congress, and the roots of postwar American foreign policy / Randall B. Woods -- The progressive dissent: Ernest Gruening and Vietnam / Robert D. Johnson -- "Come home, America": the story of George McGovern / Thomas J. Knock -- Congress must draw the line: Senator Frank Church and the opposition to the Vietnam War and the imperial presidency / David F. Schmitz -- Dixie's dove: J. William Fulbright, the Vietnam War, and the American South / Randall B. Woods -- Advice and dissent: Mike Mansfield and the Vietnam War / Donald A. Ritchie -- The reluctant "volunteer": the origins of Senator Albert A. Gore's opposition to the Vietnam War / Kyle Longley -- A delicate balance: John Sherman Cooper and the Republican opposition to the Vietnam War / Fredrik Logevall -- Friendly fire: Lyndon Johnson and the challenge to containment / H.W. Brands -- Richard Nixon, congress, and the war in Vietnam, 1969-1974 / Robert D. Schulzinger

Vietnam & the American Political Tradition