Hell No ─ The Forgotten Power of the Vietnam Peace Movement

"Hell no" was the battle cry of the largest peace movement in American history. In this heartfelt and well-researched essay, Tom Hayden, a principal organizer of the anti-Vietnam War protests, reminds us that millions of Americans marched, often led by returning soldiers, resisted the draft on campuses, and forced two sitting presidents from office. Now, Hayden says, recognition of that peace movement is being stricken from official Pentagon histories and mainstream memories. In this book Hayden shows how the Vietnam protests have been whitewashed, and what to do about it.

Tom Hayden, an educator, former California state senator, author, and lifelong activist, was the principal author, in 1962, of the Port Huron Statement, the founding manifesto of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). He died in Santa Monica on October 23, 2016.