Dear Dr. Spock : : Letters about the Vietnam War to America's Favorite Baby Doctor / / ed. by Michael S. Foley.
At the height of the Vietnam War, thousands of Americans wrote moving letters to Dr. Benjamin Spock, America’s pediatrician and a high-profile opponent of the war. Personal and heartfelt, thoughtful and volatile, these missives from Middle America provide an intriguing glimpse into the conflicts tha...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2005] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 23 black and white illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- A Note on the Letters
- 1 Gunfire in the Distance, 1965
- 2 Into the Quagmire, 1966
- 3 Polarization, January–October, 1967
- 4 The Antiwar Challenge and Its Discontents, October 1967–February 1968
- 5 Shock Waves: The Aftermath of Tet and the Ordeal at Home, February–May 1968
- 6 The War on Trial, May–September 1968
- 7 Toward Nixon’s War, September 1968–December 1969
- 8 The End of the Tunnel, 1970–1972
- Appendix
- Notes
- Index
- About the editor