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A c k n o w l e d g m e n t s I thought tha t thi s wor k shoul d begi n b y providin g th e reade r wit h some autobiographica l informatio n whic h migh t explai n i n par t why I cam e t o hav e a n interes t i n thi s topic . T o begi n with , I wa s born i n 1962 , to o youn g t o participat e i n th e protes t movement s o f the Col d War-Vietna m Wa r era . My brother, however , wa s a colleg e student antiwa r protesto r a s well a s a Vietnam Wa r comba t infantr y veteran. In spite of the media an d academi c stereotype o f blue-colla r Americans a s hawkis h morons , m y ow n working-class , Worl d Wa r II veteran fathe r wa s oppose d t o th e Vietna m Wa r an d wante d m y brother t o go to Canada i n order to evade the draft . M y parents wer e somewhat unconventional . Ever y tim e President Richar d Nixo n ap peared o n television , m y fathe r woul d rebu t hi m poin t b y point , convincing m e tha t "Trick y Dickie " wa s evi l personified . Les t w e sound to o liberal , m y antiwa r parent s condemne d th e hippie s an d potheads wh o disrupte d th e 196 8 Democrati c Nationa l Conventio n in Chicag o an d vote d fo r Georg e Wallac e i n th e 197 2 Michiga n Democratic primary . Our family hate d Nixon , the Vietnam War, an d the peace movement . My favorit e memor y o f th e perio d involve s ou r hippi e neighbor s who constructe d a snow-sculpture d peac e sig n whic h the y spray painted red , white , an d blue . Th e othe r neighbors , wh o wer e Nixo n supporters, reporte d the m t o the loca l police . Apprise d b y the sher iff tha t complaint s ha d bee n mad e regardin g their atheisti c Commu nist display , the hippies cheerfull y remove d half o f the two-fingere d peace sculpture . I also fondl y recal l Eart h Da y 197 0 whe n m y ele mentary schoo l require d th e students— a numbe r o f who m wor e "Woodsy Owl " decal s an d wer e cla d i n grann y dresses—t o for m xi xii Acknowledgment s a circle, clas p hands, an d sing, "I' d Like to Teach the World to Sin g in Perfec t Harmony. " Tw o year s later , al l bu t si x o f thes e junio r countercultural enthusiast s vote d fo r Nixon i n a school moc k elec tion . In 1969,1 made a personal contributio n to the Movement. Havin g been allowe d t o watc h fa r too muc h television , especiall y th e CB S Evening New s report s o n th e tria l o f th e Chicag o Seven , I absorbed a grea t dea l o f incompletel y understoo d information . Thu s i t wa s perhaps not too surprising when I told my second grade teacher that I would establis h a school SD S chapte r unles s sh e stoppe d yellin g at m e fo r bein g inattentive . ( I am mildl y dyslexic ; sh e interprete d my inability to complete assignment s withou t repeated oral instruc tion as signs of laziness, disobedience , an d stupidity. ) So muc h fo r autobiography; an d no w o n t o more importan t con cerns . I have encountere d man y peopl e i n the course o f researchin g and writin g thi s wor k wh o wer e o f grea t assistance. I n particular, I must commen d th e numerou s individual s wh o consente d t o b e interviewed an d...

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