num_pages: 176
description: Between March and September of 1974, as Richard Nixon's presidency of the United States unraveled on national television, Bill Ehrhart, a decorated Marine Corps sergeant and anti-war Vietnam veteran fought to retain his merchant seaman's card after being busted for possession of marijuana. He was also held on suspicion of armed robbery in New York City, detained on the Garden State Parkway for looking like a Puerto Rican revolutionary and thrown out of New Jersey by the Maple Shade police. All of this occurred while the House Judiciary Committee conducted hearings on Nixon's impeachment.
language: English
title: Busted: A Vietnam veteran in Nixon's America
titlecomplete: Busted: A Vietnam veteran in Nixon's America
ratings_count: 10
publisher: University of Massachusetts Press