Against the Vietnam War
Writings by Activists

Throughout these 25 essays and speeches, Robbins weaves the beginning of the antiwar movement of the 1960s with reflections about the consequences of Vietnam on today's social and political agenda. Some of these pieces are classics of the era, but others are published here for the first time.

"What I did not know was the complexity, the many facets of the antiwar movement, the shades of opinion, " writes Mary Susannah Robbins, in the Preface to Against the Vietnam War: Writings by Activists. Unlike any other era in American history, the Vietnam War at once divided and united America by generation, race, gender, and social class, as well as by political association. Throughout these twenty-five essays and speeches, Robbins weaves the beginning of the antiwar movement of the 1960s with reflections about the consequences of Vietnam on today's social and political agenda. Some of these pieces are classics of the era, but others are published here for the first time.