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The American South and the Vietnam War - Belligerence, Protest, and Agony in Dixie (Hardcover)
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The American South and the Vietnam War - Belligerence, Protest, and Agony in Dixie (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace
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To fully comprehend the Vietnam War, it is essential to understand
the central role that southerners played in the nation's commitment
to the war, in the conflict's duration, and in the fighting itself.
President Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas and Secretary of State Dean
Rusk of Georgia oversaw the dramatic escalation of U.S. military
involvement from 1965 through 1968. General William Westmoreland,
born and raised in South Carolina, commanded U.S. forces during
most of the Johnson presidency. Widely supported by their
constituents, southern legislators collectively provided the most
dependable support for war funding and unwavering opposition to
measures designed to hasten U.S. withdrawal from the conflict. In
addition, southerners served, died, and were awarded the Medal of
Honor in numbers significantly disproportionate to their states'
populations. In The American South and the Vietnam War, Joseph A.
Fry demonstrates how Dixie's majority pro-war stance derived from a
host of distinctly regional values, perspectives, and interests. He
also considers the views of the dissenters, from student protesters
to legislators such as J. William Fulbright, Albert Gore Sr., and
John Sherman Cooper, who worked in the corridors of power to end
the conflict, and civil rights activists such as Martin Luther King
Jr., Muhammad Ali, and Julian Bond, who were among the nation's
most outspoken critics of the war. Fry's innovative and masterful
study draws on policy analysis and polling data as well as oral
histories, transcripts, and letters to illuminate not only the
South's influence on foreign relations, but also the personal costs
of war on the home front.
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