Protest and Survive : Underground GI Newspapers during the Vietnam War
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Review
“[L]ewes demonstrates that the journalism of dissent linked civilian and GI antiwar protesters, empowered enlistees by breaking down their isolation, and filled a vacuum created by the mainstream media. Lewes enriches the book with a collection of gritty cartoons from the era and a time line of dissent within military ranks from 1965 though 1970. Highly recommended. Lower/upper-division undergraduates and graduate students.”–
“[r]ecalls and analyzes the sudden expansion of the antiwar underground GI press in the late 1960s.”–
Book Description
Drawing from more than 120 newspapers, published between 1968 and 1970, this study explores the emergence of an anti-militarist subculture within the U.S. armed services. These activists took the position that individual GIs could best challenge their subordination by working in concert with like-minded servicemen through GI movement organizations whose behaviors and activities were then publicized in these underground newspapers. In examining this movement, Lewes focuses on their treatment of power and authority within the armed forces and how this mirrored the wider and more inclusive relations of power and authority in the United States. He argues that this opposition among servicemen was the primary motivation for the United States to withdraw from Vietnam.
Protest and Survive : Underground GI Newspapers during the Vietnam War
Protest and Survive: Underground GI Newspapers during the Vietnam War,James Lewes,Praeger Publishers,0275978613,Asia - Southeast Asia,History,History - General History,Journalism, Military,Military,Military - Korean War,Military - Vietnam War,Protest movements,United States,Vietnam War, 1961-1975,Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975,History / Military / Vietnam War,Korea,Warfare & Defence,World history: from c 1900 -
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