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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewNot only does Moser show the hidden depths and the extent of the anti-war movement among American G.I.s during the Vietnam War, but he also offers us a new way to read that movement. This is a finely tuned blend of anecdote and interpretation. -- Ronald J. Grele * Director, Oral History Research Office, Columbia University *
Moser has given us much more than an eye opening Vietnam War book. The New Winter Soldiers also demands serious attention from all of us trying to make sense of the rocky histories of American masculinized citizenship and militarized masculinity. -- Cynthia Enloe * Clark University, author of The Morning After: Sexual Politics at the End of the *
Moser has written an important story of transformation. He provides a detailed description of ways in which pain became a source of insight and action, 'how thousands of American soldiers and veterans created something good from what was one of the worst experiences of their lives.' The book will contribute to our knowledge not only of the Vietnam War but of broader human struggles to cope with, and ultimately contest, war-making. -- Robert J. Lifton * author of Home from the War: Learning from Vietnam Veterans and The Nazi Doctors *
A vigorous analysis of the protest movement among veterans as well as within the military establishment. . . . Highly recommended. * Library Journal *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
1 Happy Veteran's Day
2 The Soldier Ideal and American Culture: The Citizen-Soldier, the Fighter, and the Fifties
3 GI Dissent and War Resistance in Vietnam
4 The GI Movement in the United States
5 The Veterans' Antiwar Movement
6 Military Resistance as a Social Movement
7 The Transformation of the Citizen-Soldier: War and Reconstruction
Notes
Sources
Index
