Campus Wars - 9780814735121

Campus WarsThe Peace Movement at American State Universities in the Vietnam Era\nAuthor(s): Kenneth J. Heineman\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: New York University Press, United States\nImprint: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9780814735121, 978-0814735121\nSynopsis\n\""At the same time that the dangerous war was being fought in the jungles of Vietnam, Campus Wars were being fought in the United States by antiwar protesters. Kenneth J. Heineman found that the campus peace campaign was first spurred at state universities rather than at the big-name colleges. His useful book examines the outside forces, like military contracts and local communities, that led to antiwar protests on campus.\""\n ?Herbert Mitgang, The New York Times\n \""Shedding light on the drastic change in the social and cultural roles of campus life, Campus Wars looks at the way in which the campus peace campaign took hold and became a national movement.\""\n ?History Today\n\""Heineman's prodigious research in a varie.