Shedding light on an understudied form of opposition to the Vietnam
War, Michael Foley tells the story of draft resistance, the cutting
edge of the antiwar movement at the height of the war's escalation.
Unlike so-called draft dodgers, who evaded the draft by leaving the
country or by securing a draft deferment by fraudulent means, draft
resisters openly defied draft laws by burning or turning in their
draft cards. Like civil rights activists before them, draft
resisters invited prosecution and imprisonment.
Focusing on Boston, one of the movement's most prominent
centers, Foley reveals the crucial role of draft resisters in
shifting antiwar sentiment from the margins of society to the
center of American politics. Their actions inspired other draft-age
men opposed to the war--especially college students--to reconsider
their place of privilege in a draft system that offered them
protections and sent disproportionate numbers of working-class and
minority men to Vietnam. This recognition sparked the change of
tactics from legal protest to mass civil disobedience, drawing the
Johnson administration into a confrontation with activists who were
largely suburban, liberal, young, and middle class--the core of
Johnson's Democratic constituency.
Examining the day-to-day struggle of antiwar organizing carried
out by ordinary Americans at the local level, Foley argues for a
more complex view of citizenship and patriotism during a time of
war.
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