Rough Draft: Cold War Military Manpower Policy and the Origins of Vietnam-Era Draft Resistance

Author/Contributor(s):	Rutenberg, Amy J
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Date:	09/15/2019
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Rough Draft draws the curtain on the race and class inequities of the Selective Service during the Vietnam War. Amy J. Rutenberg argues that policy makers' idealized conceptions of Cold War middle-class masculinity directly affected whom they targeted for conscription and also for deferment. Federal officials believed that college educated men...