Slanders Against Protesters Nothing New

by Paul H. Rosenberg Thursday, Aug. 17, 2000 at 11:34 PM
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There’s nothing in the demonization of protesters. This book takes on and refutes the most enduring slander against the anti-war movement of the 1960s--the myth that protesters spit on returning veterans, a myth that the author shows emerged only after the fact, as part of the endgame to disappear the very real, very powerful, very embarrassing Vietnam veteran anti-war movement.

There’s nothing in the demonization of protesters. The Spitting Image takes on and refutes the most enduring slander against the anti-war movement of the 1960s--the myth that protesters spat on returning veterans, a myth that the author shows emerged only after the fact, as part of the endgame to disappear the very real, very powerful, very embarrassing Vietnam veterans' anti-war movement.

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