Resisting Reagan: The U.S. Central America Peace Movement

by Christian Smith

Book Overview

A comprehensive analysis of the U.S. Central America peace movement, Resisting Reagan explains why more than one hundred thousand U.S. citizens marched in the streets, illegally housed refugees, traveled to Central American war zones, committed civil disobedience, and hounded their political representatives to contest the Reagan administration's policy of sponsoring wars in Nicaragua and El Salvador.

Focusing on the movement's three...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226763366
• ISBN13: 9780226763361
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 484 Pages
• Weight: 1.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.0"