Amy J. Rutenberg

Rough Draft

Cold War Military Manpower Policy and the Origins of Vietnam-Era Draft Resistance

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Produktbeschreibung

Rough Draft draws the curtain on the race and class inequities of the Selective Service during the Vietnam War. Amy J. Rutenberg argues that policy makers' idealized conceptions of Cold War middle-class masculinity directly affected whom they targeted for conscription and also for deferment. Federal officials believed that college educated men...

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 160mm x 237mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9781501739361
• ISBN-10: 1501739360
• Artikelnr.: 54812063

Autorenporträt

Amy J. Rutenberg

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Selective Service Classification Chart (1951-1973)
Introduction
1. "Digging for Deferments": World War II, 1940-1945
2. "To Rub Smooth the Sharp Edges": Universal Military Training, 1943-1951
3. "Really First-Class Men": The Early Cold War, 1948-1953
4. "A Draft-Dodging Business": Manpower Channeling, 1955-1965
5. "The Most Important Human Salvage Operation in the History of our
Country": The War on Poverty, 1961-1969
6. "Choice or Chance": The Vietname War, 1965-1973
Conclusion
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Index