Ernest Gruening and the American Dissenting Tradition

by Robert David Johnson

Ernest Gruening is perhaps best known for his vehement fight against U.S. military involvement in Vietnam, where he set himself apart by casting one of two votes against the Tonkin Gulf Resolution in 1964. However, as Robert Johnson shows in this political biography, it's Gruening's sixty-year public career in its entirety that provides an opportunity for historians to explore continuity and change in dissenting thought, on both domestic and international...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674260600
• ISBN13: 9780674260603
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 375 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.5"