Preface Introduction The Draft in American History: Balancing Liberty and Necessity Childhood: The Origins of Disaffection Adolescent Philosophers: From Teens to Draftees Selective Service and Vietnam: Deferments, Loopholes and Class Privilege Northern Bound: Dodging the Deferments--Evading the Country "Boys without a Country" Exiles or Émigrés? Traitors or Quintessential Americans? Reflections From Across the Border Epilogue Appendices Bibliography Index
Looks at the experiences of American draft dodgers in Canada during the Vietnam War, arguing that many of these young men were motivated not only by their opposition to the war but also by their sense of alienation from American society as a whole.
Frank Kusch is a writer and journalist currently working on a second book on the anti-war movement in the United States during the 1960s.
"All American Boys is an important addition to our literature on
the Vietnam War. But it goes beyond that particular historical
episode to examine with acute intelligence the phenomenon of
disobedience to authority in any time. It gives us fresh insights
into the complex motivations that led some Americans to decide to
avoid military service."-Howard Zinn author of A People's History
of the United States
"Based on extensive interviews with Americans who went to Canada in
the 1960s to escape the Vietnam War draft, Frank Kusch's "All
American Boys" explores the essential issues of who they were, why
they went, and why, in many cases they chose to remain. Kusch
advances original and provocative interpretations of his subjects,
and fills an important gap in our knowledge of what happened to the
Vietnam Generation and why."-George Herring University of
Kentucky
"Frank Kusch's excellent study forces us to reconsider our
understanding of what it meant "to go to Canada" during the Vietnam
War....Drawing on oral interviews and manuscript sources, Kusch
persuasively argues that for many of the young men who went to
Canada, opposition to the Vietnam War was less important the social
and cultural dislocations they experienced growing up in the 1950s
and early 1960s."-Mark Bradley Associate Professor University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee author, Imagining Vietnam and American: The
Making of Postcolonial Vietnam, 1919,1950
?This interesting volume examines self-proclaimed American "draft
dodgers" who became expatriates in Canada during the Vietnam War,
and refutes several myths about these individuals who opted to
depart permanently from their home country....Recommended for
general readers and all academic levels.?-Choice
"This interesting volume examines self-proclaimed American "draft
dodgers" who became expatriates in Canada during the Vietnam War,
and refutes several myths about these individuals who opted to
depart permanently from their home country....Recommended for
general readers and all academic levels."-Choice
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