Confronting the War Machine: Draft Resistance during the Vietnam War

Focusing on the draft resistance movement in Boston in 1967-68, this study argues that these acts of mass civil disobedience turned the tide in the antiwar movement by drawing the Johnson administration into a confrontation with activists who were largely young, middle-class, liberal, and from suburban backgrounds—the core of Johnson's constituency.

New England Quarterly

Impressive . . . Foley drew upon an exceptionally wide range of primary sources. . . . Together with Foley's powerful writing and cogent analysis, this extensive research helps make Confronting the War Machine a vibrant, first-rate scholarly study.