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Who Spoke Up?: American Protest against the War in Vietnam, 1963-1975, by Nancy Zaroulis and Gerald Sullivan (Doubleday, 460 pp., $18.95)

Television documentaries, exploitation films, autobiographies, photo books, histories linear and oral—after a decade of relative oblivion, the Vietnam War is back on the national agenda. A rhetorical conflict now, the war is refought in words and images with history the prize. On this front at least the military seems to have gained ground, capturing with Magnum P.I. and Missing in Action the hearts and minds of a citizenry it could not persuade through force of arms. Lest the field be left to the old soldiers, the wife-husband team of Nancy Zaroulis and Gerald Sullivan (she a writer of historical novels, he a former teacher of classical languages) has countered with Who Spoke Up?: American Protest against the War in Vietnam, a most thorough, if highly partisan, account of the antiwar movement’s ultimately successful rear-guard action.

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Who Spoke Up?: American Protest against the War in Vietnam, 1963-1975, by Nancy Zaroulis and Gerald Sullivan (Doubleday, 460 pp., $18.95)

Television documentaries, exploitation films, autobiographies, photo books, histories linear and oral—after a decade of relative oblivion, the Vietnam War is back on the national agenda. A rhetorical conflict now, the war is refought in words and images with history the prize. On this front at least the military seems to have gained ground, capturing with Magnum P.I. and Missing in Action the hearts and minds of a citizenry it could not persuade through force of arms. Lest the field be left to the old soldiers, the wife-husband team of Nancy Zaroulis and Gerald Sullivan (she a writer of historical novels, he a former teacher of classical languages) has countered with Who Spoke Up?: American Protest against the War in Vietnam, a most thorough, if highly partisan, account of the antiwar movement’s ultimately successful rear-guard action.