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Vietnam and the American political tradition : the politics of dissent /
This volume is intended to demonstrate how opposition to the war in Vietnam, the military-industrial complex, and the national security state crystallized in a variety of different and often divergent political traditions. Indeed, for many of the figures discussed, dissent was a decidedly conservati...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2003.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This volume is intended to demonstrate how opposition to the war in Vietnam, the military-industrial complex, and the national security state crystallized in a variety of different and often divergent political traditions. Indeed, for many of the figures discussed, dissent was a decidedly conservative act in that they felt that the war threatened traditional values, mores, and institutions, even though their definitions of what was sacred differed profoundly. To an extent many of the dissenters treated in this volume were at one time Cold War liberals. 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. Most dissenters increasingly came to perceive cold war liberalism as a radical departure that threatened the fundamental ideals of the republic. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vii, 324 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511064489 9780511064487 0511058152 9780511058158 0511120273 9780511120275 9780521010009 0521010004 9780521811484 0521811481 9786610161119 6610161119 1107132665 9781107132665 1280161116 9781280161117 1139147900 9781139147903 0511307020 9780511307027 0511072945 9780511072949 9780511615375 051161537X |