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by Charles DeBenedetti (Author), Charles Chatfield (Contribution by)
An American Ordeal is the first comprehensive interpretive history of the antiwar movement in the United States throughout the Vietnam era. Beginning with the rise of a liberal peace movement against atmospheric nuclear testing from 1955 to 1963, the authors describe the emergence of radical pacifists and politically motivated groups who eventually created a diverse coalition against the Vietnam War. They examine how extremist elements came to dominate the movement in the late 1960s, to be supplanted by a larger consensus of liberal and pacifist groups in the early 1970s.
Author Biography
Charles DeBenedetti is the author of Origins of the Modem American Peace Movement, 1915-1929 and The Peace Reform in American History, and editor of Peace Heroes in Twentieth-Century America.
