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Maraniss, David. They Marched into the Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Oct. 2003. 592p. index. Simon & Schuster, $30 (0-7432-1780-2). 959.704.
The only direct connection between the two incidents dramatized in this narrative is their occurrence within hours of each other. In South Vietnam near Saigon, a U.S. Army battalion was decimated in an ambush laid by a North Vietnamese regiment; while in Madison, Wisconsin, police bloodied a dozen university students obstructing recruitment by a company they denounced as a war profiteer. Maraniss magnifies the battle and the demonstration as moments when the war became unwinnable and when students became radicalized, and though his choice of tipping points is probably influenced by personal experience he--witnessed the demonstration in ...
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