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The Antiwar Movement of the Vietnam Era

Author: Charles De Benedetti

Editor: Charles Chatfield

Syracuse University Press, Syracuse NY, 1990, pp. 495

Detailed and well researched account. Final chapter by Charles Chatfield analyses the strengths and weaknesses of the movement and influence on US policy. Concludes that anti-war activists contributed to the growth of public disaffection with the war, but could not harness it, but that both Johnson and Nixon Administrations adapted their policies in response to pressure from dissenters.