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| | All American Boys :
Draft Dodgers in Canada from the Vietnam War
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| | by Frank Kusch
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ZIN Product Number: 10055517
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
ISBN: 0275972682
Release Date: Jan 8, 2001
Average Reader Review:  (Based on 2 reviews.)
| |  | | | In Brief
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.
| | | | From The Publisher
This unique study argues that the draft dodgers who went to Canada during the Vietnam War were not always the anti-war radicals portrayed in popular culture. Many were the products of stable, conservative, middle class homes who were more interested in furthering their education and careers than fighting in Southeast Asia. The conflict in Vietnam was just one cause among many for their deep sense of disaffection from the land of their birth. These exiles remained quintessentially American, because evading the draft was in their opinion consistent with the very best American traditions of individualism and resistance to undue authority or state servitude.
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Worth the read
-- Loren Robertson, Attorney for civil liberties, February 19, 2002
Also Recommended: North to Canada, James Dickerson
American history at its best
-- Peter Abrams, a teacher interested in new ideas., February 13, 2002
| |  | | | | Preface | | | Acknowledgments | | | Selective Service Classifications | | | Chronology | | | Introduction | 1 | | 1 | The Draft in American History: Balancing Liberty and Necessity | 11 | | 2 | Childhood: The Origins of Disaffection | 27 | | 3 | Adolescent Philosophers: From Teens to Draftees | 47 | | 4 | Selective Service and Vietnam: Deferments, Loopholes, and Class Privilege | 67 | | 5 | Northward Bound: Dodging the Deferments, Evading the Country | 81 | | 6 | "Boys Without a Country": Exiles or Emigres? | 99 | | 7 | Traitors or Quintessential Americans? Reflections from Across the Border | 109 | | Epilogue | 127 | | Appendix | 131 | | Notes | 137 | | Bibliography | 159 | | Index | 169 |
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| | | | Keywords
Draft resisters, United States, History, 20th century, Canada, Technology & Industrial Arts, Technology, Military Science, General, Political Science, 20th century, Canada, History, United States, Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975, Emigration and immigration, Social aspects, Americans, Draft resisters
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