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9%OFFPenny Lewis - Hardhats, Hippies, and Hawks: The Vietnam Antiwar Movement as Myth and Memory - 9780801478567 - V9780801478567
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Hardhats, Hippies, and Hawks: The Vietnam Antiwar Movement as Myth and Memory

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Description for Hardhats, Hippies, and Hawks: The Vietnam Antiwar Movement as Myth and Memory Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1, 1 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; HBJK; HBLW3; HBWS2; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 166 x 17. Weight in Grams: 392.

In the popular imagination, opposition to the Vietnam War was driven largely by college students and elite intellectuals, while supposedly reactionary blue-collar workers largely supported the war effort. In Hardhats, Hippies, and Hawks, Penny Lewis challenges this collective memory of class polarization. Through close readings of archival documents, popular culture, and media accounts at the time, she offers a more accurate "counter-memory" of a diverse, cross-class opposition to the war in Southeast Asia that included the labor movement, working-class students, soldiers and veterans, and Black Power, civil rights, and Chicano activists.

Lewis investigates why the image of antiwar class ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780801478567
SKU
V9780801478567
Shipping Time
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99-1

About Penny Lewis
Penny Lewis is Assistant Professor of Labor Studies at the Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies, City University of New York.

Reviews for Hardhats, Hippies, and Hawks: The Vietnam Antiwar Movement as Myth and Memory
As Penny Lewis argues and persuasively demonstrates in this theoretically and methodologically innovative book, 'working-class opposition to the war was significantly more widespread than is remembered, and parts of the movement found roots in working-class communities and politics.' She therefore sets out to revise the distorted history of the anti-war movement and then to explain theoretically why this belief has ... Read more

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