>From a customer review of his book, The War Within: America's Battle Over
Vietnam
..."In many areas of the book, one of the main radical organizations of the
anti-war movement, the Socialist Workers Party, is depicted as a dogmatic
Marxist sect that repeatedly undermined the movement's unity by fighting
liberal and pacifist forces some of whom sought to channel the movement
into the Democratic Party. While there is certainly room for criticism of
the SWP's role at the time (and I have plenty) the fact of the matter is
that without the SWP many, and maybe even most, of the national
demonstrations against the war would not have happened at all, or if they
did happen, would have been much smaller and less well organized.
People who liked the book should... see the new movie Sir! No Sir! [2005],
a documentary about GI resistance to the Vietnam war, which has been
written out of history, because it was THE key element that brought the war
to an end."
- amazon.com
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