Give Peace a Chance: Exploring the Vietnam Antiwar Movement

Melvin Small · William D. Hoover

Sep 1992 · Syracuse University Press

About this ebook

Written by veterans of the Vietnam War and participants in the organized opposition to it, this book examines how the activities of America's most important antiwar movement affected the lives of its citizens and its government. Relying on oral histories and recently available archival material, the authors consider the movement's strategies and tactics, its leaders and its rank and file, and describe the difficulties encountered by peace activists in their efforts to build politically effective organizations. What emerges from this collection is that the millions of Americans who fought against the government's policies in Southeast Asia participated in one of the most potent—and complex—oppositional movements in modern history.

About the author

Melvin Small is professor of history at Wayne State University and president of the Council on Peace Research in History. His other books include Resort to Arms, Was War Necessary?, and Johnson, Nixon, and the Doves. William D. Hoover, professor of history and department chair of the University of Toledo, has published articles on Japanese diplomacy and entrepreneurship and served as the Asian editor for the Biographical Dictionary of Modem Peace Leaders.