Finding the manpower to defend democracy has been a recurring problem. Russell Weigley writes: The historic preoccupation of the Army's thought in peacetime has been the manpower question: how, in an unmilitary nation, to muster adequate numbers of capable soldiers quickly should war occur. When the nature of modern warfare made an all-volunteer army inadequate, the major Western democracies confronted the dilemma of involuntary military service in a free society. The core of this manuscript concerns methods by which France, Great Britain, and the United States solved the problem and why...
Finding the manpower to defend democracy has been a recurring problem. Russell Weigley writes: The historic preoccupation of the Army's thought in ...
Individual liberty is ingrained in American culture. Yet, in contrast to this cherished ideal, American men were inducted into military service under a system that flourished for more than twenty years before its rationalization was seriously questioned by more than a small minority of citizens. Analyzing this paradox, George Flynn provides the first comprehensive look at an institution that managed to sustain political and public favor through two wars before dying out under a barrage of protests during a third. Placing the American draft within a historical context, he shows how social...
Individual liberty is ingrained in American culture. Yet, in contrast to this cherished ideal, American men were inducted into military service under ...
This first scholarly biography of Hershey (1893 - 1977) and the first historical study of the draft from 1940 to 1970 presents valuable insights into the operation of the political system and the national defense policy. Serving as draft director under six different presidents, he played an important role in home-front mobilization, the evolution of Cold War politics, the treatment of conscientious objectors, blacks, women, and in the Vietnam protest. Flynn reveals the interaction between the private man and the public person.
Originally published in 1985.
A UNC Press...
This first scholarly biography of Hershey (1893 - 1977) and the first historical study of the draft from 1940 to 1970 presents valuable insights into ...
Jerry Malone can't go home again. After he escapes Hurricane Katrina, he lives in Manhattan wearing mismatched suits and making mismatched relationships, longing for a redux. When a rich New Orleans heiress hires wisecracking and world-weary Jerry for a case, he returns to his Crescent City. Jerry and the heiress need to find out what happened to a mutual friend who is missing and perhaps dead in the city. Searching the city, he watches it rise from mud, oil, and ashes, and possibilities of his personal redemption reveal themselves. Working in scandal-ridden New Orleans, a city notable for...
Jerry Malone can't go home again. After he escapes Hurricane Katrina, he lives in Manhattan wearing mismatched suits and making mismatched relationshi...
