Against the Vietnam War: Writings... | Buy

Mary Susannah Robbins has taught literature and writing at Boston College and at Vassar.

Acknowledgments

ix

Introduction

xi

Mary Susannah Robbins

Contributors

xix

PART ONE Beginnings

The Need to Remember

1

(3)

David Harris

The Impossible Victory: Vietnam

4

(37)

Howard Zinn

PART TWO The War at Home

From Ha Ha Ha McNamara

41

(14)

Robert Malecki

My Vietnam

55

(7)

Jane Bond Moore

Burning Illusions: The Napalm Campaign

62

(14)

H. Bruce Franklin

The Responsibility of Intellectuals

76

(24)

Noam Chomsky

Declaration of Independence from the War in Vietnam

100

(11)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Why I Joined the Resistance

111

(9)

Michael Ferber

A Time to Say No

120

(4)

Michael Ferber

Poems

124

(3)

Daniel Berrigan

Chicago 1968: Street-Fightin' Man

127

(13)

Carl Oglesby

From the Suburbs to Saigon

140

(7)

Jeff Jones

Vietnam Comes to Lexington: Memorial Day 1971

147

(10)

Eugenia Kaledin

``Where Are You Now, My Son?''

157

(34)

Joan Baez

PART THREE Soldiers Against the War

What Did You Do In the Class War, Daddy?

191

(20)

James Fallows

War Memorial: Staying Close to a Buddy Twenty-five Years after His Death

211

(3)

George Swiers

American War Crimes and Vietnam Veterans

214

(10)

Tod Ensign'

The War Against the War

224

(21)

David Cortright

PART FOUR Consequences

Consequences of the Vietnam War and Government Policies of the Seventies

245

(3)

Eugene J. McCarthy

Passing It on: The Movement for Teaching the Vietnam War in the Schools

248

(11)

Jerold M. Starr

Visiting Vietnam

259

(6)

Arlene Ash

Chicago 1996: Despite Corporate Media Silence Many Powerful Protests

265

(10)

Dave Dellinger

PART FIVE Conclusions

What I Got Out of the War

275

(12)

Jane Sass Collins

Cherishing Vistas, Embracing Human Beings: Toward Peace and Freedom

287

(10)

William Ayers

Deja Vu All Over Again

297

(12)

Staughton Lynd

Notes

309

(6)

Index

315

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