The War Within: America's Battle over Vietnam

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The Vietnam war left a gash in the heart of America that can still be felt today. The War Within is the definitive history of America's internal battle over that war, and it chronicles, as no other book has done, the full story of how a powerful grassroots force--the antiwar movement--changed the course of American history.
Tom Wells spent over ten years painstakingly researching government and antiwar-movement documents and interviewing virtually every key player from the Vietnam era--from Dean Rusk, William Westmoreland, and John Ehrlichman to Dave Dellinger, Philip Berrigan, and Daniel Ellsberg. Wells moves from protests at the White House gates to ...

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The Vietnam war left a gash in the heart of America that can still be felt today. The War Within is the definitive history of America's internal battle over that war, and it chronicles, as no other book has done, the full story of how a powerful grassroots force--the antiwar movement--changed the course of American history.
Tom Wells spent over ten years painstakingly researching government and antiwar-movement documents and interviewing virtually every key player from the Vietnam era--from Dean Rusk, William Westmoreland, and John Ehrlichman to Dave Dellinger, Philip Berrigan, and Daniel Ellsberg. Wells moves from protests at the White House gates to antiwar meeting halls, recreating the activities of the student factions, religious organizations, political splinter groups, and other organizations that waged campaigns of mass protest, draft resistance, civil disobedience, and sometimes political violence. Here, too, are the behind-the-scenes planning sessions of Democratic and Republican administrations as they sought to discredit and subvert the antiwar movement's efforts.
Wells demonstrates that Washington took the antiwar movement seriously at every stage of the war and that the movement was instrumental in the eventual withdrawal of U.S. forces from Southeast Asia. He also reveals how the movement's growing influence prompted the Watergate fiasco. And he graphically conveys the internecine conflicts that plagued the antiwar movement and its leaders.
In these pages the human drama of the antiwar era unfolds through the words of its participants, both the famous and the forgotten. Wells not only captures the spirit of these tumultuous times but also shows how the events of twenty-five years ago shaped the America of today.

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Publishers Weekly
Wells's comprehensive examination of domestic opposition to the war in Vietnam chronicles the successes of the anti-war movement. Despite an intensive effort by the U.S. government to disrupt and divide it, the movement of 1964-1973 played a major role in restricting, deescalating and then ending our involvement in Indochina. Wells, a freelance writer, explores the acrimonious debates among high-level hawks and doves in Washington. He analyzes the effect of the movement on war policy, showing how it hindered air and ground operations during the Johnson administration, exerted a substantial impact on Nixon's Indochina policy, had a direct bearing on the deterioration of troop morale and discipline (which provided additional impetus for troop withdrawal), and ultimately led to the Watergate scandal which, as Wells tells it, played a pivotal role in ending the war. This absorbing drama filled with vivid characterizations is an impressive work of scholarship. Photos. (Apr.)
Library Journal
This history of protest activities in the United States during the Vietnam War is an important addition to the field. It complements such recent titles as Charles DeBenedetti and Charles Chatfield's An American Ordeal ( LJ 4/1/90), Charles Chatfield's The American Peace Movement (Twayne, 1992), and Melvin Small's Give Peace a Chance (Syracuse Univ. Pr, 1992). Wells concludes that activists failed to recognize their enormous impact on Congress, the White House, and U.S. public opinion and that factional squabbling within Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and similar groups was self-destructive. While the hundreds of interviews with leading antiwar activists and former government officials help show the anguish of both groups, Wells's study ultimately provides a comprehensive look at the peace movement between the years 1965 and 1975. Appendixes include a chronology of events, a list of abbreviations from the period, a list of those interviewed, and a select bibliography. Highly recommended for most libraries.-- Gary D. Barber, SUNY at Fredonia Lib.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780595343966
  • Publisher: iUniverse, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 6/28/2005
  • Pages: 728
  • Sales rank: 807,348
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 1.60 (d)

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Tom Wells has taught at the University of San Francisco and Mills College and is now a freelance writer in Oakland, California.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 17, 2012

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    This book is an excellent study of the domestic turmoil over the Vietnam War. It tells the story of the evolution of the peace movement juxtaposed with the story of how the movement affected the Johnson and Nixon administrations. The author’s amazing access to top members of the two administrations gives the reader much insight into what was really going on in the White House during those years. The story of peace movement is less interesting because so few of the leaders seem sympathetic. The movement was always plagued by huge egos in conflict over tactics and goals. In addition, the Socialist Workers’ Party (Trotskyites) was determined to impose their ideology and sell their newsletter, succeeding beyond the FBI’s wildest dreams in driving people away from the movement. I recommend this book highly to people who want a deeper understanding of the peace movement, and the government’s response, than is normally provided in histories of the Vietnam War.

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