Dissenting Pows: From Vietnam?ÇÖS Hoa Lo Prison To America Today - 9781583679098

Looking into the underlying factional divide between pro-war hardliners" and anti-war "dissidents" among the POWs, authors Wilber and Lembcke delve into the postwar American culture that created the myths of the Hero-POW and the dissidents blamed for the loss of the war. What they found was that it was the class backgrounds of the captives and their pre-captive experience that drew the lines. After the war, the hardcore hero-holdouts, like John McCain, moved on to careers in politics and business, while the dissidents faded from view as the antiwar movement, that might otherwise have championed them, disbanded"--

• | Author: Tom Wilber, Jerry Lembcke
• | Publisher: Monthly Review Press
• | Publication Date: April 22, 2021
• | Number of Pages: 160 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 158367909X
• | ISBN-13: 9781583679098