The Draft, 1940-1973 |
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| Author:
| Flynn, George Q. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7006-1105-8 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 1993 |
| Publisher: | University Press of Kansas
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $39.95 |
Book Description:
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Flynn chronicles the draft's military and strategic successes and failures in America's mid-century wars. He shows how major institutions and lobbies representing science, education, and various professions and religions influenced it and how the selective character of the draft eventually made the system inequitable and helped cause its downfall.
Flynn chronicles the draft's military and strategic successes and failures in America's mid-century wars. He shows how major institutions and lobbies representing science, education, and various professions and religions influenced it and how the selective character of the draft eventually made the system inequitable and helped cause its downfall.