The Draft Lottery
Author | : Natalie M. Rosinsky |
Publisher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 26 |
Release | : 2008-09 |
Genre | : Draft |
ISBN | : 0756538416 |
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The history of the draft in the United States.
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Author | : Natalie M. Rosinsky |
Publisher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 26 |
Release | : 2008-09 |
Genre | : Draft |
ISBN | : 0756538416 |
The history of the draft in the United States.
Author | : Wesley Abney |
Publisher | : Vernon Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2019-03-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1622736192 |
This book provides a concise but thorough summary of how the selective service system worked from 1965 through 1973, and also demonstrates how this selective process, during a highly unpopular war, steered major life choices of millions of young men seeking deferrals based on education, occupation, marital and family status, sexual orientation, and more. This book explains each category of deferral and its resulting “ripple effect” across society. Putting a human face on these sociological trends, the book also includes a number of brief personal anecdotes from men in each category, told from a remove of 40 years or more, when the lifelong effects of youthful decisions prompted by the draft have become evident. There are few books which address the military draft of the Vietnam years, most notably CHANCE AND CIRCUMSTANCE: The Draft, the War and the Vietnam Generation, by Baskir and Strauss (1978). This early study of draft-age men discusses how they were socially channeled by the selective service system. RANDOM DESTINY follows up on this premise and draws from numerous later studies of men in the lottery pool, to create the definitive portrait of the draft and its long-term personal and social effects. RANDOM DESTINY presents an in-depth explanation of the selective service system in its final years. It also provides a comprehensive yet personal portrait of how the draft and the lottery steered a generation of young lives into many different paths, from combat to conscientious objection, from teaching to prison, from the pulpit to the Canadian border, from public health to gay liberation. It is the only recent book which demonstrates how American military conscription, in the time of an unpopular war, profoundly influenced a generation and a society over the decades that followed.
Author | : George Q. Flynn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
"Individual liberty is ingrained in American culture. Yet, in contrast to this cherished ideal, American men were inducted into military service under a system that flourished for more than twenty years before its rationalization was seriously questioned by more than a small minority of citizens." "Analyzing this paradox, George Flynn provides the first comprehensive look at an institution that managed to sustain political and public favor through two wars before dying out under a barrage of protests during a third. Placing the American draft within a historical context, he shows how social and political considerations determined the character of conscription in the United States." "The draft developed as it did, he argues, not mainly because of military needs or strategy, but because of political decisions initiated by civilians with nonmilitary agendas. Explaining why the draft remained relatively immune to political criticism prior to the Vietnam conflict, Flynn chronicles the draft's military and strategic successes and failures in America's mid-century wars. He shows how major institutions and lobbies representing science, education, and various professions and religions influenced it and how, ultimately and ironically, the selective character of the draft eventually made the system inequitable and helped cause its downfall."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author | : Lawrence M. Baskir |
Publisher | : Knopf Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Scientific Manpower Commission |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Draft |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jack Werlow |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 31 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Draft |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Tom Weiner |
Publisher | : Levellers Press |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 2014-05-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0981982042 |
Stories of men and women confronted by the Vietnam War. Contains personal stories of Vietnam War Veterans, people who fled the country, people who refused to go to war, people who beat the draft, people who obtained Conscientious Objector status, and people who loved and supported them.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 5 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Draft |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Rita Dragonette |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2018-09-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1631524623 |
A Readers' Favorite Book Award Finalist and Best Book Awards Finalist * Featured in Ms. Magazine, Brit + Co, Hypertext Magazine, BookTrib, Publishers Weekly, Writer's Digest and more! An enthralling historical novel about brave women set during the peak of the Vietnam War and told through the rare perspective of a young woman, who traces her path to self-discovery and a “Coming of Conscience.” If you loved Kristin Hannah's latest novel The Women, this one's for you. On September 14, 1969, Private First Class Judy Talton celebrates her nineteenth birthday by secretly joining the campus anti-Vietnam War movement. In doing so, she jeopardizes both the army scholarship that will secure her future and her relationship with her military family. But Judy’s doubts have escalated with the travesties of the war. Who is she if she stays in the army? What is she if she leaves? When the first date pulled in the Draft Lottery turns up as her birthday, she realizes that if she were a man, she’d have been Number One―off to Vietnam with an under-fire life expectancy of six seconds. The stakes become clear, propelling her toward a life-altering choice as fateful as that of any draftee. Judy’s story speaks to the poignant clash of young adulthood, early feminism, and war, offering an ageless inquiry into the domestic politics of protest when the world stops making sense.
Author | : Henk Tijms |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 407 |
Release | : 2007-07-26 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 1139465457 |
In this fully revised second edition of Understanding Probability, the reader can learn about the world of probability in an informal way. The author demystifies the law of large numbers, betting systems, random walks, the bootstrap, rare events, the central limit theorem, the Bayesian approach and more. This second edition has wider coverage, more explanations and examples and exercises, and a new chapter introducing Markov chains, making it a great choice for a first probability course. But its easy-going style makes it just as valuable if you want to learn about the subject on your own, and high school algebra is really all the mathematical background you need.