DIGIRENT - Felon for Peace: The Memoir of a Vietnam-Era Draft Resister
Jerry Elmer
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Felon for Peace: The Jerry Elmer epub Felon for Peace: The Jerry Elmer pdf download Felon for Peace: The Jerry Elmer pdf file Felon for Peace: The Jerry Elmer audiobook Felon for Peace: The Jerry Elmer book review Felon for Peace: The Jerry Elmer summary | #1567325 in Books | Vanderbilt University Press | 2005-09-09 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.04 x.72 x6.10l,1.00 | File type: PDF | 280 pages | ||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| A crucial work|By Joseph Tropea|Memoirs are a mixed-bag. Some, like Bill Ayer's Fugitive Days are filled with pages of anecdotes and passion. They're endlessly interesting and entertaining, but may leave the reader feeling more like they've just read a novel rather than a memoir (read: history). They may even leave the reader with more questions than answers--not necessarily a||"This is a timely book, to help us reflect on what we should have learned from Vietnam and to bring back those counselors we too quickly set aside with the draft. Young people today need to know they have choices, and that protest can take many forms."|—
When Jerry Elmer turned eighteen at the height of the Vietnam War, he publicly refused to register for the draft, a felony then and now. Later he burglarized the offices of fourteen draft boards in three cities, destroying the files of men eligible to be drafted. After working almost twenty years in the peace movement, he attended law school, where he was the only convicted felon in Harvard's class of 1990.
This book is a blend of personal memoir, contemporary his...
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