The War Within: America's Battle over Vietnam is a painfully
engrossing and popularly written account of how the battle on the home
front ended America's least popular war. This absorbing narrative,
hailed by critics of every persuasion, is the fruit of over a decade's
worth of research: the author sifted through mountains of government
documents, press coverage, and transcripts of interviews he conducted
with virtually all of the key players, both inside the U.S. government
and among the dissenters who eventually brought the war to an end. In
these pages the antiwar era comes to life through the words of scores of
participants, both the famous and the forgotten, who speak with candor
and passion about this tumultuous period. A remarkable story of a
powerful grassroots movement and its influence on officials in
Washington.