The Pro-War Movement: Domestic Support for the Vietnam War and the Making of Modern American Conservatism

by Sandra Scanlon

In the vast literature on the Vietnam War, much has been written about the antiwar movement and its influence on U.S. policy and politics. In this book, Sandra Scanlon shifts attention to those Americans who supported the war and explores the war's impact on the burgeoning conservative political movement of the 1960s and early 1970s.

Believing the Vietnam War to be a just and necessary cause, the pro-war movement pushed for more direct American...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625340184
• ISBN13: 9781625340184
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher