The War Within: America's Battle Over Vietnam"The War Within" is a painfully engrossing account of America's internal battle over the Vietnam War. Hailed by critics of every persuasion, this absorbing narrative is the product of over a decade's worth of research: the author sifted through thousands of government and antiwar documents and interviewed virtually all of the key players on both sides of the fence, from Dean Rusk, John Ehrlichman, and H. R. Haldeman to Dave Dellinger, Philip Berrigan, and Daniel Ellsberg. The result is this remarkable chronicle: the story of how a powerful grassroots movement ended our longest and least popular war. In these pages the Vietnam era comes to life through the words of scores of participants, who speak with candor and passion about this tumultuous time. |
Contents
1965 | 9 |
Quiet Escalation | 19 |
This Is Really War | 38 |
A Colossal Blunder | 44 |
Cooperation or Combat? The International Days | 51 |
A Christmas Bombing Pause | 62 |
A Leftist Wrecking Crew | 79 |
Getting Together | 91 |
FIVE 1968 | 223 |
Effective | 254 |
PART I | 287 |
PART II | 341 |
EIGHT 1970 | 403 |
NINE 1971 | 471 |
TEN 197275 | 533 |
It in Cash | 569 |
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