52 Specialized Topics: The Draft (Recommended Reading List on the Viet Nam War)
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This article is from the Vietnam FAQ, by Brian Ross, John R. Tegtmeier, Edwin E. Moise, Frank Vaughan, John Tegtmeier with numerous contributions by others.
52 Specialized Topics: The Draft (Recommended Reading List on the Viet Nam War)
Appy, Christian G. Working Class War : American Combat
Soldiers and Vietnam. Chapel Hill: University North Carolina Press,
1993.
Baskir, Lawrence M. and William A. Strauss. Chance and
Circumstance : The Draft, the War, and the Vietnam Generation. With a
Foreword by Theodore M. Hesburgh. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978.
Still the most complete study of the draft
available, as well as dishonorable and general discharges from the military.
Baskir was the General Counsel and Chief Executive Officier of
President Ford's Clemency Board; Strauss was its Director of Planning
and Management as well as the director of the staff that issued the final
report. Contains extemely important information and statistics
about various aspects and inequalities of the selective service
system. The work was originally sponsored by the University of Notre
Dame.
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