Jane Fonda's War

by Hershberger, Mary

• ISBN13: 9781565849884
• ISBN10: 1565849884
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-09-01
• Publisher: New Pr

Summary

"Jane Fonda, as the enormous interest in her recent memoir reveals, has become an iconic figure in American culture. But her activities in opposition to the Vietnam War remain the most intriguing and controversial moments in a storied life. They are the subject of Mary Hershberger's new book, the first comprehensive account of Fonda's antiwar campaigning." "Jane Fonda's War recounts the evolution of Fonda's politics leading up to her bold antiwar stance. It charts the obsessive interest with the actress on the part of the Nixon government and the dirty tricks that were employed against her, including pressuring the Justice Department to charge her with treason. It follows Fonda on her controversial visits to Hanoi, and it documents the fury these trips provoked among many Americans, an anger that still finds an echo today." "Based on unprecedented access to Fonda's twenty-foot-thick FBI files, interviews with former prisoners of war who met with Fonda in Hanoi in 1972, and a broad range of contemporaneous press reports, Jane Fonda's War is an essential complement to her own story and an important corrective to pervasive right-wing mythmaking."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	ix
1 BECOMING AN ACTIVIST	1	(26)
2 GI JANE: WINTER SOLDIER AND FREE THE ARMY	27	(24)
3 SPYING ON FONDA	51	(24)
4 GOING TO VIETNAM	75	(34)
5 FALLOUT: THE ORIGINS OF THE FONDA MYTH	109	(28)
6 COMING HOME: THE POLITICS OF PRISONER REPATRIATION	137	(30)
7 THE COMPLICATED LEGACIES OF FONDA'S ANTIWAR ACTIVISM	167	(24)
NOTES	191	(22)
INDEX	213