0521811481.Cambridge.University.Press.Vietnam.and.the.American.Political.Tradition.The.Politics.of.Dissent.Mar.2003

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Vietnam and the American Political Tradition
ThePoliticsofDissent
This volume of essays is intended to demonstrate how opposition to
the war in Vietnam, the military-industrial complex, and the national
security state crystallizedin a variety ofdifferent andoften divergentpo-
litical traditions. Indeed, for many of the figures discussed, dissent was
a decidedly conservative act; they felt that the war threatened tradi-
tional values, mores, and institutions, even though their definitions of
what was sacred differed profoundly. During the course of the Vietnam
War, they came to see the foreign policy, which they were supporting
with its willingness to invoke the democratic ideal and at the same time
tolerate dictatorships in the cause of anticommunism, as morally and
politically corrupt. Though most dissenters were liberal – they believed
that government had a duty to regulate the economy, helpthe disad-
vantaged, and participate in schemes of collective security – all were
conservative in that they increasingly came to perceive Cold War liber-
alism as a radical departure that threatened the fundamental ideals of
the republic.
Randall B. Woods is John A. Cooper Distinguished Professor of
History at the University of Arkansas. He has written widely on
twentieth-century American history, including
QuestforIdentity
(2000),
Dawning of the Cold War
(1991),
Changing of the Guard
(1990), and
Fulbright:ABiography
(1995), which won both the Ferrell and Ledbetter
Prizes.
Vietnam and the American
Political Tradition
ThePoliticsofDissent
Edited by
RANDALL B. WOODS
UniversityofArkansas
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