Author: Jessica Mitford
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Category : Draft
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Chronicle of events in Boston, 1968 surrounding their prosecution on charges of conspiracy to counsel, aid and abet violations of the Selective Service Act.
Author: Jessica Mitford
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Category : Military Service
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Author: Jessica Mitford
Publisher: Little Brown and Company (UK)
ISBN: 9780356030494
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Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Author: Jessica Mitford
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Languages : en
Pages : 287
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Author: William Sloane Coffin (Jr.)
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1150
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Author: William Sloane Coffin
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Category : Conspiracy
Languages : en
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Author: Warren Goldstein
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030013505X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 397
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A magnet for controversy, the media, and followers, the Rev. William Sloane Coffin Jr. was the premier voice of northern religious liberalism for more than a quarter-century, and a worthy heir to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. From his pulpits at Yale University and, later, New York City’s Riverside Church, Coffin focused national attention on civil rights, the anti-Vietnam War movement, disarmament, and gay rights. This revealing biography—based on unparalleled access to family papers and candid interviews with Coffin, his colleagues, family, friends, lovers, and wives—tells for the first time the remarkable story of Coffin’s life. An army and CIA veteran before assuming the post of Yale University chaplain at the youthful age of 33, Coffin gained notoriety as a leader of a dangerous civil rights Freedom Ride in 1961, as a defendant in the “Boston Five” trial of draft resisters in 1969, and as the preeminent voice of liberal religious dissent into the 1980s. This book encompasses Coffin’s turbulent private life as well as his flamboyant, joyful public career, while dramatically illuminating the larger social movements that consumed his days and defined his times.
Author: William Conrad Gibbons
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691006352
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 990
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"This is a study of U.S. government policymaking during the 30 years of the Vietnam war, 1945-75, beginning with the 1945-1960 period. Although focusing on the course of events in Washington and between Washington and U.S. officials on the scene, it also depicts major events and trends in Vietnam to which the U.S. was responding, as well as the state of American public opinion and public activity directed at supporting or opposing the war."--Preface.
Author: Lonnie T. Brown
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 1503609170
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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What led a former United States Attorney General to become one of the world's most notorious defenders of the despised? Defending the Public's Enemy examines Clark's enigmatic life and career in a quest to answer this perplexing question. The culmination of ten years of research and interviews, Lonnie T. Brown, Jr. explores how Clark evolved from our government's chief lawyer to a strident advocate for some of America's most vilified enemies. Clark's early career was enmeshed with seminally important people and events of the 1960s: Martin Luther King, Jr., Watts Riots, Selma-to-Montgomery March, Black Panthers, Vietnam. As a government insider, he worked to secure the civil rights of black Americans, resisting persistent, racist calls for more law and order. However, upon entering the private sector, Clark seemingly changed, morphing into the government's adversary by aligning with a mystifying array of demonized clients—among them, alleged terrorists, reputed Nazi war criminals, and brutal dictators, including Saddam Hussein. Is Clark a man of character and integrity, committed to ensuring his government's adherence to the ideals of justice and fairness, or is he a professional antagonist, anti-American and reflexively contrarian to the core? The provocative life chronicled in Defending the Public's Enemy is emblematic of the contradictions at the heart of American political history, and society's ambivalent relationship with dissenters and outliers, as well as those who defend them.
