Elites for Peace

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"In Elites for Peace, Gary Stone provides the first full account of how senators responded when President Lyndon Johnson demanded that they support his Vietnam policy. Readers are provided a front-row seat for some of the most dramatic debates and committee hearings in American history. Elites for Peace sheds light on how senators dealt with the war - a politically hazardous issue - as the American involvement increased and Vietnam became a major, ultimately the major, concern of the American people. Stone reveals how, as the war became more controversial, senators tried to influence the president and how the president, in turn, tried to bend senators to his own will. Stone gives attention to senators of both parties and every region, and to such well-remembered figures as J. William Fulbright and the Kennedy brothers, and such nearly forgotten figures as Len Jordan and Gale McGee." "Elites for Peace will be of interest not only to those who desire a better understanding of one of the most important debates in American history but to those who seek a better perspective on such ongoing issues as the nature of the antiwar movement of the 1960s, the motivations of politicians, the proper role of Congress, and the debates that have accompanied American wars since Vietnam."--BOOK JACKET.