Bruce Dancis

Resister

A Story of Protest and Prison During the Vietnam War

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This insider's account of the antiwar and student protest movements of the '60s also provides a rare look at the prison experiences of Vietnam-era draft resisters.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: MRTS
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9780801452420
• ISBN-10: 0801452422
• Artikelnr.: 40139952

Autorenporträt

Bruce Dancis

Inhaltsangabe

PART ONE: THE MAKING OF A DRAFT RESISTER
1. Boy from the Bronx
2. Socialism in Two Summer Communities
PART TWO: THE MOVEMENT AGAINST THE WAR, THE DRAFT, AND UNIVERSITY
COMPLICITY
3. First Year at Cornell: Runs, Pledges, and Sit-Ins
4. Tenant Organizing in East Harlem
5. From Protest to Resistance
6. Draft Cards Are for Burning
7. The Summer of Love and Disobedience
8. The Resistance
9. SDS, South Africa, and the Security Index
10. From Resistance to Revolution
11. Trials and Tribulations
12. Rebellion and Factionalism in Black and White
13. Brinksmanship, or Cornell on the BrinkPART THREE: FEDERAL PRISON
14. Safety and Survival in My New Kentucky Home
15. A Typical Day in Prison, and a Few That Weren't
16. Politics in Prison, or Keeping Up with the Outside World
17. Getting Out
PART FOUR: EPILOGUE
18. Did We End the War? Did Draft Resistance Matter?