"Tom Wells' book is the "War and Peace" of the movement to end American involvement in Vietnam. Like Tolstoy, he offers a massive cast of characters and a plethora of detail, but also a coherent theme. For Wells, it is that the uprising of young American citizens succeeded in changing our Vietnam policy beyond their own recognition. . . . The anti-Vietnam war campaign proved conclusively that foreign policy is too important to be left to the experts."--Paul C. Warnke, Assistant Secretary of Defense, Johnson Administration ...
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"Tom Wells' book is the "War and Peace" of the movement to end American involvement in Vietnam. Like Tolstoy, he offers a massive cast of characters and a plethora of detail, but also a coherent theme. For Wells, it is that the uprising of young American citizens succeeded in changing our Vietnam policy beyond their own recognition. . . . The anti-Vietnam war campaign proved conclusively that foreign policy is too important to be left to the experts."--Paul C. Warnke, Assistant Secretary of Defense, Johnson Administration "This is our own history at its best, with original insights and a creative new perspective on events we only thought we knew. In the 1960s America confronted herself as never before, or after, and "The War Within" is a compelling portrait of that fateful meeting."--Roger Morris
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