Telltale hearts : the origins and impact of the Vietnam antiwar movement / Adam Garfinkle.

Collection type	Library
Author	Garfinkle, Adam M., 1951-;
Call Number	959.7043373 G231t
Document type	Monograph
Year	1995.
Citation	94039655
Pagination	xiii, 370 p. ; 25 cm.
Publisher	St. Martin's Press,
Note	Includes bibliographical references and indexes. More than two decades after the end of the Vietnam War, America's wounds have yet to heal; the war's divisiveness continues. Yet today, even the most hard-line hawks and doves share the conviction that, for better or worse, the antiwar movement played a. important role in turning American opinion against the war, thereby limiting and ultimately ending U.S. military activity in Southeast Asia. In Telltale Hearts, Adam Garfinkle convincingly demonstrates that this widely accepted view is wrong. Garfinkle argues that the movement, even at its radical height, had but a marginal impact on limiting and ending the war and in fact unwittingly helped to prolong it, thereby killing more people on both sides. The movement, in the end, was simply not as. mportant as other factors, such as the contours of normal electoral politics, the ebb and flow of battle, and the devastating misjudgments made by a series of American civil and military leaders. However, by following the movement into the present, the. thor concludes that it has in fact had a powerful, and greatly underestimated, postwar influence.
Place made	New York

Abstract

Foreword / Stephen E. Ambrose -- 1. Ironies of Protest -- 2. American Traditions of Dissent and the Vietnam Generation -- 3. Evolution of the Movement: Liberals and the Left -- 4. Groundswell -- 5. Sources of Sixties Radicalism -- 6. Best of Times, Worsof Times -- 7. Denouement: Tin Soldiers and Nixon Coming -- 8. Vietnam as Metaphor, 1975-92 -- 9. Back in the Street: Vietnam and the Kuwait War -- 10. Truths and Consequences -- Epilogue: McNamara's Lament.