Telltale Hearts: The Origins and Impact of the Vietnam Antiwar Movement

TELLTALE HEARTS: The Origins and Impact of the Vietnam Antiwar Movement by Adam Garfinkle. 370 pages. St. Martin's Press. New York. 1996. 524.95.

Adam Garfinkle, author and resident scholar at the Foreign Policy Institute, attended Vietnam antiwar rallies as a teenager. Like many who never fully agreed with everything they heard in the speeches, he was ambivalent about the antiwar movement. Telltale Hearts is not only excellent history but also good therapy for anyone who wants to logically and meaningfully resolve emotional ambivalence.

Garfinkle examines important psycho-social antecedents to the antiwar movement and counterculture before 1963 and traces the political and cultural "fallout" since 1973. He closely scrutinizes the years between 1963 and 1973 and makes three compelling arguments....