Our War:
Subtitle: What We Did in Vietnam and What It Did to Us
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Crown
Published: September 3, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9780812925760
Subjects: U.S. History - Vietnam Conflict (1965-1973); Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Peace And Peace Movements; History - General History; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; History: World; United States; Protest movements; Asia - Southeast Asia; Historical - U.S; Military - Vietnam War; Non-Classifiable; Influence
Description: David Harris was the most famous draft resister of the Vietnam War. A former student body president of Stanford University, he refused to accept induction and be sent to Vietnam. As a consequence, he spent nearly two years in a federal prison. With his marriage to Joan Baez, he emerged as the leading moral voice of his generation.

For the past two decades, he has largely remained silent as the antiwar movement he led stood accused by critics and politicians of everything from cowardice to stab-in-the-back betrayal to frivolity. Now, in Our War, he speaks out in defense of a generation torn by one of the more divisive wars in America's history.

Neither a history nor an autobiography, though containing aspects of both. Our War is a compelling, even fevered account of stalking the war's moral shadow through the decades since its ignominious end. It is a powerful rumination on the war, the protest movement, and America's need, even now, so many years later, for a reckoning.

Our War is a one-of-a-kind look at who we were, what we did, why we did it, and what those actions made of us, seen through the eyes of a unique and significant American figure and one of our most gifted writers. Part memoir, part polemic, all passion. Our War is a disturbing book, a cry from the heart of an anguished American.