The War Within
America's Battle Over Vietnam
Published on 2. February 2016
799 pages
978-1-5040-2933-9 (ISBN)
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The War Within: America's Battle over Vietnam is a painfully engrossing and popularly written account of how the battle on the home front ended America's least popular war. This absorbing narrative, hailed by critics of every persuasion, is the fruit of over a decade's worth of research: the author sifted through mountains of government documents, press coverage, and transcripts of interviews he conducted with virtually all of the key players, both inside the U.S. government and among the dissenters who eventually brought the war to an end. In these pages the antiwar era comes to life through the words of scores of participants, both the famous and the forgotten, who speak with candor and passion about this tumultuous period. A remarkable story of a powerful grassroots movement and its influence on officials in Washington.
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Tom Wells is an author of three books:
The War Within: America's Battle over Vietnam,
Wild Man: The Life and Times of Daniel Ellsberg, and (with Richard A. Leo)
The Wrong Guys: Murder, False Confessions, and the Norfolk Four. He has also contributed articles to books on the Vietnam War and the 1960s. He earned a PhD in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley.
He has received fellowships and grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, George Soros's Open Society Institute, the Institute for the Study of World Politics, the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation, the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, Columbia University, and the University of California, Berkeley. He lives in Boulder, Colorado, where he does freelance book editing.
The Washington Post's reviewer of Wild Man called Wells "an exceptional historian."
He has received fellowships and grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, George Soros's Open Society Institute, the Institute for the Study of World Politics, the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation, the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, Columbia University, and the University of California, Berkeley. He lives in Boulder, Colorado, where he does freelance book editing.
The Washington Post's reviewer of Wild Man called Wells "an exceptional historian."
Content
- Intro
- Praise for The War Within: America's Battle Over Vietnam
- Title Page
- Contents
- Foreword, by Todd Gitlin
- Introduction
- ONE 1965
- War on the Edge
- Seeds of a Movement
- Quiet Escalation
- "This Is No Longer a Casual Form of Campus Spring Fever"
- "This Is Really War"
- "A Colossal Blunder"
- Carrying On
- Cooperation or Combat? The International Days, the National Coordinating Committee, and the SANE March
- A Christmas Bombing Pause
- TWO 1966
- Antsy Senators, Angry Buddhists, Concerned Clergy
- "There Is Nothing You Can Teach a Dog That You Cannot Teach a Congressman"
- "A Leftist Wrecking Crew"
- Inflammatory Educational Reform: A, B, C, D, and Nam
- Napalm Protests and Medical Aid
- Getting Together
- A Revolutionary SDS
- Enemy Resolve, Public Doubt
- Hounded Public Servants
- Trouble with the Relatives
- Endless War?
- THREE 1967: PART I
- Broadening Opposition
- "Murderers Do Not Respond to Reason"
- The Spring Mobilization
- Liberal Stirrings
- Dissenting Veterans and War Crimes
- The Government Counterattacks
- "There May Be a Limit beyond Which Many Americans.Will Not Permit the United States to Go"
- Is Anybody Listening?
- FOUR 1967: PART II
- Rehabilitating Broken Vietnamese Bodies
- An Educational (Vietnam) Summer
- "You Guys Are Just Going to Martyr Yourselves"
- Staggering toward the Pentagon
- Protecting the Pentagon
- Oakland Stop the Draft Week
- The Siege: "It Was Terrifying"
- International Communist Conspiracy
- Mounting Rage
- Fingers in the Dike
- FIVE 1968
- Peace by Ballot?
- The Spock Indictments: Going after "the Biggies"
- Dangerous Designs: Planning for Chicago
- Turnaround
- "That Kind of Mass Protest Activity.Is Quite Effective"
- Restless Victors
- Multi-Issuism versus Vietnam Protest: A "Savage" Dispute
- The Devastation of the Student Mobilization Committee
- Blood in the Windy Streets
- Licking Wounds
- SIX 1969: PART I
- The Madman and the Taps
- Down but Not Out
- Troubled Ted
- "The Sectarianism Is Staggering"
- "The Youth Problem"
- Communist Dupes and Spoiled Children
- Tackling the Youth Problem
- Planning an Autumn Attack: The Vietnam Moratorium and New Mobe
- Weathermania
- Other Summer Voices
- SEVEN 1969: PART II
- "The Campuses Are Gonna Blow"
- Blunting the Moratorium and Mobe
- "I Can't Believe That a Fourth-Rate Power Like North Vietnam Doesn't Have a Breaking Point"
- Desperate Dan
- More Defections
- "They Are All with SDS. They Are All Fucking Crazy!"
- Moratorium
- Nixon Blinks
- Isolating the Black Sheep
- The "Showdown"
- Restless Victors Revisited
- EIGHT 1970
- Before the Storm
- "We're Dealing with the Criminal Mind"
- "I'll Show Them Who's Tough"
- The Storm
- Damage Control
- May 9: "A Picnic in the Park"
- More White House Game-Planning
- The Death of the Mobe
- After the Storm
- No More Appeasement
- Decline
- Radical Liberals, Terrorists, and Thugs
- NINE 1971
- "The Next Six Weeks Will Determine the Future of Western Civilization"
- "We've Got Our Officers Tightened Up!"
- A Tenuous Alliance
- "It Doesn't Take That Many Terrorists to Block All the Traffic Arteries"
- The Spring Offensive
- The Pentagon Papers
- "Evicting" Nixon
- TEN 1972-75
- "The Bastards Have Never Been Bombed Like They're Going to Be Bombed This Time"
- Preventing World War III
- Break-in
- Miami
- Peace or Politics?
- "New Madness"
- The Paris Accords
- Unfinished Business
- "You Could Get a Million Dollars. And You Could Get It in Cash."
- Turning Off the Tap
- Afterword
- Chronology
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Interviews
- Select Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Copyright Page
