Charles Chatfield
, Transnational Social Movements and Global Politics: Solidarity Beyond the State
ed. Chatfield, Charles; Smith, Jackie; Pagnucco, Ron,De Benedetti, Charles, The Antiwar Movement of the Vietnam Era
ed. Chatfield, Charles,Detailed and well researched account. Final chapter by Charles Chatfield analyses the strengths and weaknesses of the movement and influence on US policy. Concludes that anti-war activists contributed to the growth of public disaffection with the war, but could not harness it, but that both Johnson and Nixon Administrations adapted their policies in response to pressure from dissenters.
Chatfield, Charles, Ironies of Protest: Interpreting the American Anti-Vietnam War Movement
In Guido Grünewald, Peter Van den Dungen, Twentieth-century peace movements: Successes and failures , Lewiston NY, Edwin Mellen Press, 1995 , pp. 254Argues radical left never had a cohesive centre and that when movement most confrontational, its liberal wing was working most effectively with the political system. Suggests the movement became associated with social and cultural iconoclasm, which appeal to sections of middle classes, but that the broader public eventually opposed both the war and the antiwar protest, because ‘both seemed to threaten the established social order’.