Rough Draft : : Cold War Military Manpower Policy and the Origins of Vietnam-Era Draft Resistance / / Amy J. Rutenberg.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Rutenberg, Amy J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (276 p.) :; 10 b&w halftones

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. Fe...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• 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 Vietnam War, 1965-1973
• Conclusion
• List of Abbreviations
• Notes
• Index