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Protest and Survive - by James Lewes (Hardcover)

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  • Drawing from more than 120 newspapers, published between 1968 and 1970, this study explores the emergence of an anti-militarist subculture within the U.S. armed services.
  • About the Author: JAMES LEWES received his doctorate in Journalism and Mass Communications from the University of Iowa.
  • 256 Pages
  • History, Asia

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Drawing from more than 120 newspapers, published between 1968 and 1970, this study explores the emergence of an anti-militarist subculture within the U.S. armed services. These activists took the position that individual GIs could best challenge their subordination by working in concert with like-minded servicemen through GI movement organizations whose behaviors and activities were then publicized in these underground newspapers. In examining this movement, Lewes focuses on their treatment of power and authority within the armed forces and how this mirrored the wider and more inclusive relations of power and authority in the United States. He argues that this opposition among servicemen was the primary motivation for the United States to withdraw from Vietnam.

This first book length study of GI-published underground newspapers sheds light on the utility of alternative media for movements of social change, and provides information on how these movements are shaped by the environments in which they emerge. Lewes asserts that one cannot understand GI opposition as an extension of the civilian antiwar movement. Instead, it was the product of an embedded environment, whose inhabitants had been drafted or had enlisted to avoid the draft. They came from cities and small towns whose populations were often polarized between those who wholeheartedly supported the war and those who became progressively more critical of the need for Americans to be involved in Vietnam.



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Drawing from more than 120 newspapers, published between 1968 and 1970, this study explores the emergence of an anti-militarist subculture within the U.S. armed services. These activists took the position that individual GIs could best challenge their subordination by working in concert with like-minded servicemen through GI movement organizations whose behaviors and activities were then publicized in these underground newspapers. In examining this movement, Lewes focuses on their treatment of power and authority within the armed forces and how this mirrored the wider and more inclusive relations of power and authority in the United States. He argues that this opposition among servicemen was the primary motivation for the United States to withdraw from Vietnam.

This first book length study of GI-published underground newspapers sheds light on the utility of alternative media for movements of social change, and provides information on how these movements are shaped by the environments in which they emerge. Lewes asserts that one cannot understand GI opposition as an extension of the civilian antiwar movement. Instead, it was the product of an embedded environment, whose inhabitants had been drafted or had enlisted to avoid the draft. They came from cities and small towns whose populations were often polarized between those who wholeheartedly supported the war and those who became progressively more critical of the need for Americans to be involved in Vietnam.



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?[r]ecalls and analyzes the sudden expansion of the antiwar underground GI press in the late 1960s.?-CJR Book reports

?[L]ewes demonstrates that the journalism of dissent linked civilian and GI antiwar protesters, empowered enlistees by breaking down their isolation, and filled a vacuum created by the mainstream media. Lewes enriches the book with a collection of gritty cartoons from the era and a time line of dissent within military ranks from 1965 though 1970. Highly recommended. Lower/upper-division undergraduates and graduate students.?-Choice

"Ýr¨ecalls and analyzes the sudden expansion of the antiwar underground GI press in the late 1960s."-CJR Book reports

"ÝL¨ewes demonstrates that the journalism of dissent linked civilian and GI antiwar protesters, empowered enlistees by breaking down their isolation, and filled a vacuum created by the mainstream media. Lewes enriches the book with a collection of gritty cartoons from the era and a time line of dissent within military ranks from 1965 though 1970. Highly recommended. Lower/upper-division undergraduates and graduate students."-Choice

"[r]ecalls and analyzes the sudden expansion of the antiwar underground GI press in the late 1960s."-CJR Book reports

"[L]ewes demonstrates that the journalism of dissent linked civilian and GI antiwar protesters, empowered enlistees by breaking down their isolation, and filled a vacuum created by the mainstream media. Lewes enriches the book with a collection of gritty cartoons from the era and a time line of dissent within military ranks from 1965 though 1970. Highly recommended. Lower/upper-division undergraduates and graduate students."-Choice



About the Author



JAMES LEWES received his doctorate in Journalism and Mass Communications from the University of Iowa.
Dimensions (Overall): 9.56 Inches (H) x 6.02 Inches (W) x .93 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.16 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 256
Genre: History
Sub-Genre: Asia
Publisher: Praeger
Theme: Southeast Asia
Format: Hardcover
Author: James Lewes
Language: English
Street Date: July 30, 2003
TCIN: 1003739195
UPC: 9780275978617
Item Number (DPCI): 247-11-4327
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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