Rough Draft by Amy J. Rutenberg PAPERBACK 9781501739583

Rough Draft\nby Amy J. Rutenberg\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Amy J. Rutenberg\nTitle: Rough Draft\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Military history: post-WW2 conflicts\nPublisher: Cornell University Press\nPublication year: 2019\nISBN-13: 9781501739583\nISBN-10: 1501739581\nRRP: \u00A326.99\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nRough 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. Federal officials believed that college educated men could protect the nation from the threat of communism more effectively as civilians than as soldiers. The .