Vietnam and the American Political Tradition

Description

This volume is intended to demonstrate how opposition to the war in Vietnam, the military-industrial complex, and the national security state crystallized in a variety of different and often divergent political traditions. Indeed, for many of the figures discussed, dissent was a decidedly conservative act in that they felt that the war threatened traditional values, mores, and institutions, even though their definitions of what was sacred differed profoundly. To an extent many of the dissenters treated in this volume were at one time Cold War liberals. During the course of the Vietnam War, they came to see the foreign policy which they were supporting, with its willingness to invoke the democratic ideal and at the same time tolerate dictatorships in the cause of anticommunism, as morally and politically corrupt. Most dissenters increasingly came to perceive cold war liberalism as a radical departure that threatened the fundamental ideals of the republic.

First Sentence

What role has anti-imperialism played in U.S. foreign relations?

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Other Editions

• Vietnam and the American Political Tradition: The Politics of DissentHardcoverCambridge University Press2003-03-03
• Vietnam and the American Political TraditionE-bookCambridge University Press2003-01-01
• Vietnam and the American Political TraditionCambridge University Press2003-01-01
• Vietnam and the American Political TraditionPaperbackCambridge University Press2003-02-24
• Vietnam and the American Political TraditionCambridge University Press2009-01-01
• VIETNAM AND THE AMERICAN POLITICAL TRADITION: THE POLITICS OF DISSENT; ED. BY RANDALL WOODS.CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS