Resister: A Story of Protest and Prison during the Vietnam War
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| Rating | : | 4.75 (823 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0801452422 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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Dancis spent nineteen months in federal prison in Ashland, Kentucky, for his actions against the draft.In Resister, Dancis not only gives readers an insider's account of the antiwar and student protest movements of the sixties but also provides a rare look at the prison experiences of Vietnam-era draft resisters. He became the first student at Cornell to defy the draft by tearing up his draft card and soon became a leader of the draft resistance movement. He was the principal organizer of the first mass draft card burning during the Vietnam War, an activist in the Resistance (a nationwide organization against the draft), and a cofounder and president of the Cornell chapter of Students for a Democratic Society. He grew up in a radical household and took part in the 1963 March on Washington as a fifteen-year-old. Bruce Dancis arrived at Cornell University in 1965 as a youth who was no stranger to political action. Along the way, Dancis also explores the relationship between the topical folk and rock music of the era and the political and cultural rebels who sought to change American society.. Intertwining memory, reflection, and history, Dancis offers an engaging firsthand account of some of the era's most iconic events, including the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the Abbie Hoffman-led "hippie invasion" of the New York Stock Exchange, the antiwar confrontation at the Pentagon in 1967, and the dan
Anyone interested in how change happens should be happily immersed in this compelling and eminently readable book, at once autobiographical and analytic, that captures the seriousness, craziness, and impact of the long 1960s era in new and nuanced ways."Susan M. "In Resister: A Story of Protest and Prison During the Vietnam War, Dancis, as candid and cleareyed as he was a half-century earlier, escorts readers on a backstage tour of the antiwar movement and the evolution of a democratic socialist. Dancis paid the price for his own antiwar convictions by spending nineteen months in federal prison for refusal to cooperate with the Selective Service System, when he could have easily avoided the draft (as many of his conte
By 'Resisting' Bruce Dancis Stood Up For His Beliefs and Showed Others They Could Do the Same Cyrus Webb The world as Bruce Dancis knew it had become a place that was not full of easy decisions yet definitely had its share of consequences.In his book RESISTER he takes the reader back to the 60s and what it was like to take a stand and be a voice for a group of individuals who wondered if they . Here's what my wife Rochelle Lefkowitz wrote about Bruce's memoir: Felix "Bruce Dancis wasn't always a light sleeper.But since his prison term for tearing up his draft card at Cornell in 1968, he's slept on his back, arms stiff at his sides.Remember the iconic front page AP photo of young black men with bullet sashes, guns raised, leaving Cornell's Student Union. Memoir as History Bruce Dancis was at the heart of the anti-draft movement at Cornell University during the war in Vietnam—and Cornell was one of the hot spots of that resistance. This memoir tells the story of those times in remarkable detail: recounting not just what happened, but how things happened
He lives in Orangevale, California, and Putnam Valley, New York.. Bruce Dancis had a long career as a pop culture critic and editor, including sixteen years as the arts and entertainment editor of the Sacramento Bee, before his recent retirement