Northern Passage: American Vietnam War Resisters in Canada

by John Hagan

Book Overview

More than 50,000 draft-age American men and women migrated to Canada during the Vietnam War, the largest political exodus from the United States since the American Revolution. How are we to understand this migration three decades later? Was their action simply a marginal, highly individualized spin-off of the American antiwar movement, or did it have its own lasting collective meaning?

John Hagan, himself a member of the exodus, searched...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067400471X
• ISBN13: 9780674004719
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.4"