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Jailed for Peace: The History of American Draft Law Violators, 1658-1985
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Jailed for Peace: The History of American Draft Law Violators, 1658-1985 Hardcover - 1986

by Stephen Kohn


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In this first comprehensive treatment of the subject, Stephen Kohn presents an accessible, clearly written survey of draft resistance in America and its implications for constitutional democracy, domestic and foreign policy, social change, and the movement for world peace. The author explores the roots of the pacifist view and the first expressions of resistance that surfaced during the colonial period. He describes the incidence of draft resistance through the time of the Civil War and how it related to abolitionism. Following the modern conscientious objector through two world wars, Kohn comments on the view of pacifists during popular wars as little better than traitors and on their brutal treatment. Examining the growth of the movement during the Cold War, he addresses the major shift in public attitude that expanded the movement's base of popular support and swelled the ranks of resisters. Draft resistance was to have its greatest impact, however, during the Vietnam War and its aftermath, in influencing public feeling about the war, thwarting the Selective Service's induction efforts, and creating a climate of opinion that contributed to the government's decision to abandon the draft early in the 1970s.

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  • Title Jailed for Peace: The History of American Draft Law Violators, 1658-1985
  • Author Stephen Kohn
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 181
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, Troy, Missouri, U.S.A.
  • Date 1986-01-21
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover
  • ISBN 9780313245862 / 031324586X
  • Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 1.27 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Draft resisters - United States - History, Conscientious objectors - United States -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 84015764
  • Dewey Decimal Code 355.224

About the author

STEPHEN M. KOHN is a partner in the Washington, D.C., law firm of Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto, LLP, and Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the National Whistleblower Center. He is the former Director of Corporate Litigation for the Government Accountability Project. Nationally recognized for his scholarship and litigation on behalf of whistleblowers, Kohn in 1985 authored the first legal text on whistleblower law. He is the author of Concepts and Procedures in Whistleblower Law (Quorum, 2000).
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