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Dear Dr. Spock: Letters about the Vietnam War to America's Favorite Baby Doctor
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- Objectstaat
- Book Title
- Dear Dr. Spock: Letters about the Vietnam War to America's Favori
- Publication Date
- 2005-11-01
- Pages
- 281
- ISBN
- 9780814727430
- Publication Year
- 2005
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Dear Dr. Spock : Letters about the Vietnam War to America's Favorite Baby Doctor
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- New York University Press
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 18.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 282 Pages, 281 Pages
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The letters collected contain an array of opinions about the war, of both the hawk and dove variety. The scores of letters in this collection both praise and vilify Dr. Spock for his antiwar activism. --"The VVA Veteran""From thousands of letters written to Dr. Benjamin Spock during the Vietnam War, Foley has carefully culled 218 missives from America's silent majority. . . . Many may find the frustration, fear and grief expressed here newly relevant." --"Publishers Weekly""These letters--with Michael S. Foley's astute and informed commentary--make clear why and how so many Americans trusted Benjamin Spock. The body politic sorely needs a Doctor Spock today." --James Carroll, author of "Crusade: Chronicles of an Unjust War""Foley has discovered a unique source on the American home front during the Vietnam War, a perspective that moves us past the usual images of angry polarization. These powerful letters help us to consider how war-times induce people to look with new eyes at their nation and their government." --David Farber, author of "The Age of Great Dreams: America in the 1960s""Few documentary collections offer such an immediate connection to the years in which the Vietnam War was fought. Reading these letters now, when the U.S. is once again at war, is a profoundly moving experience." --Marilyn B. Young, author of "The Vietnam Wars, 1945-1990"At the height of the Vietnam War, thousands of Americans wrote moving letters to Dr. Benjamin Spock, America's pediatrician and a high-profile opponent of the war. Personal and heartfelt, thoughtful and volatile, these missives from Middle America provide an intriguing glimpse into the conflicts that tookplace over the dinner table as people wrestled with this divisive war and with their consciences.Providing one of the first clear views of the home front during the war, Dear Dr. Spock collects the best of these letters and offers a window into the minds of ordinary Americans. They wrote to Spock because he was familiar, trustworthy, and controversial. His book "Baby and Child Care" was on the shelves of most homes, second only to the Bible in the number of copies sold. Starting in the 1960s, his activism in the antinuclear and antiwar movements drew mixed reactions from Americans-some puzzled, some supportive, some angry, and some desperate.Most of the letters come from what Richard Nixon called the "silent majority"--white, middle class, law-abiding citizens who the president thought supported the war to contain Communism. In fact, the letters reveal a complexity of reasoning and feeling that moves far beyond the opinion polls at the time. One mother of young children struggles to imagine how Vietnamese women could endure after their village was napalmed, while another chastises Spock for the "dark shadow" he had cast on the country and pledges to instill love of country in her sons.What emerges is a portrait of articulate Americans struggling mightily to understand government policies in Vietnam and how those policies did or did not reflect their own sense of themselves and their country.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
New York University Press
ISBN-10
0814727433
ISBN-13
9780814727430
eBay Product ID (ePID)
46886882
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Dear Dr. Spock : Letters about the Vietnam War to America's Favorite Baby Doctor
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2005
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
282 Pages, 281 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
18.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ds559.62.U6d425 2005
Reviews
"These letters-with Michael S. Foley's astute and informed commentary-make clear why and how so many Americans trusted Benjamin Spock. The body politic sorely needs a Doctor Spock today." -James Carroll,author of Crusade: Chronicles of an Unjust War, "Few documentary collections offer such an immediate connection to the years in which the Vietnam War was fought. Reading these letters now, when the U.S. is once again at war, is a profoundly moving experience." -Marilyn B. Young,author of The Vietnam Wars, 1945-1990, The letters collected contain an array of opinions about the war, of both the hawk and dove variety. The scores of letters in this collection both praise and vilify Dr. Spock for his antiwar activism., ( "These letters-with Michael S. Foley's astute and informed commentary-make clear why and how so many Americans trusted Benjamin Spock. The body politic sorely needs a Doctor Spock today." )-(James Carroll),(author of Crusade: Chronicles of an Unjust War ), "From thousands of letters written to Dr. Benjamin Spock during the Vietnam War, Foley has carefully culled 218 missives from America's silent majority. . . . Many may find the frustration, fear and grief expressed here newly relevant." - Publishers Weekly ,, "The letters collected contain an array of opinions about the war, of both the hawk and dove variety. The scores of letters in this collection both praise and vilify Dr. Spock for his antiwar activism." - The VVA Veteran ,, ( "The letters collected contain an array of opinions about the war, of both the hawk and dove variety. The scores of letters in this collection both praise and vilify Dr. Spock for his antiwar activism." )-( The VVA Veteran ),(), Foley has discovered a unique source on the American home front during the Vietnam War, a perspective that moves us past the usual images of angry polarization. These powerful letters help us to consider how war-times induce people to look with new eyes at their nation and their government., "The letters collected contain an array of opinions about the war, of both the hawk and dove variety. The scores of letters in this collection both praise and vilify Dr. Spock for his antiwar activism." - The VVA Veteran, "Foley has discovered a unique source on the American home front during the Vietnam War, a perspective that moves us past the usual images of angry polarization. These powerful letters help us to consider how war-times induce people to look with new eyes at their nation and their government." -David Farber,author of The Age of Great Dreams: America in the 1960s, These letterswith Michael S. Foley's astute and informed commentarymake clear why and how so many Americans trusted Benjamin Spock. The body politic sorely needs a Doctor Spock today., From thousands of letters written to Dr. Benjamin Spock during the Vietnam War, Foley has carefully culled 218 missives from Americas silent majority. . . . Many may find the frustration, fear and grief expressed here newly relevant., ( "Few documentary collections offer such an immediate connection to the years in which the Vietnam War was fought. Reading these letters now, when the U.S. is once again at war, is a profoundly moving experience." )-(Marilyn B. Young),(author of The Vietnam Wars, 1945-1990 ), ( "From thousands of letters written to Dr. Benjamin Spock during the Vietnam War, Foley has carefully culled 218 missives from America's silent majority. . . . Many may find the frustration, fear and grief expressed here newly relevant." )-( Publishers Weekly ),(), From thousands of letters written to Dr. Benjamin Spock during the Vietnam War, Foley has carefully culled 218 missives from America's silent majority. . . . Many may find the frustration, fear and grief expressed here newly relevant., These letters-with Michael S. Foley's astute and informed commentary-make clear why and how so many Americans trusted Benjamin Spock. The body politic sorely needs a Doctor Spock today., Few documentary collections offer such an immediate connection to the years in which the Vietnam War was fought. Reading these letters now, when the U.S. is once again at war, is a profoundly moving experience., "From thousands of letters written to Dr. Benjamin Spock during the Vietnam War, Foley has carefully culled 218 missives from America's silent majority. . . . Many may find the frustration, fear and grief expressed here newly relevant." - Publishers Weekly, ( "Foley has discovered a unique source on the American home front during the Vietnam War, a perspective that moves us past the usual images of angry polarization. These powerful letters help us to consider how war-times induce people to look with new eyes at their nation and their government." )-(David Farber),(author of The Age of Great Dreams: America in the 1960s )
Table of Content
Acknowledgments Introduction A Note on the Letters 1 Gun?re in the Distance, 1965 2 Into the Quagmire, 1966 3 Polarization, January-October 1967 4 The Antiwar Challenge and Its Discontents, October 1967-February 1968 5 Shock Waves: The Aftermath of Tet and the Ordeal at Home, February-May 1968 6 The War on Trial, May-September 1968 7 Toward Nixon's War, September 1968-December 1969 8 The End of the Tunnel, 1970-1972 Appendix Notes Index About the Editor
Copyright Date
2005
Topic
Sociology / General, Military / Vietnam War, General, Medical, North America
Lccn
2005-014304
Dewey Decimal
959.704/3373
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History, Social Science
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