Confronting the war machine.pdf

Michael S. Foley, "Confronting the War Machine: Draft Resistance During the Vietnam War"
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press | 2003-03-31 | 467 Pages | ISBN: 0807827673 | PDF | 2.9 MB

Shedding light on an understudied form of opposition to the Vietnam War, Michael Foley tells the story of draft resistance, the cutting edge of the antiwar movement at the height of the war's escalation. Unlike so-called draft dodgers, who evaded the draft by leaving the country or by securing a draft deferment by fraudulent means, draft resisters openly defied draft laws by burning or turning in their draft cards. Like civil rights activists before them, draft resisters invited prosecution and imprisonment.