Lexington Books
Pages: 240
Trim: 6½ x 9½
978-0-7391-2484-0 • Hardback • December 2007 • $104.00 • (£80.00)
978-0-7391-2485-7 • Paperback • June 2008 • $45.99 • (£35.00)
Eric R. Crouse is associate professor of history at Tyndale University College, Toronto.
Chapter 1 Introduction
Part 2 Part One - The Johnson Years, 1967-68
Chapter 3 Chapter 1. A Growing War
Chapter 4 Chapter 2. A Worried Nation
Chapter 5 Chapter 3. Rising Opposition
Part 6 Part Two - The Nixon Years, 1969-71
Chapter 7 Chapter 4. Nothing New Under the Sun
Chapter 8 Chapter 5. Cambodia Fireflash
Chapter 9 Chapter 6. Winding Down Road
Chapter 10 Conclusion
An interesting and very informative book about the life and times of Margaret Chase Smith during the years of Vietnam. Offers a significant element to our understanding of her relations with her constituents.
— Christian P. Potholm
With the United States now embroiled in another protracted, controversial war, the letters in Dear Senator Smith seem familiar for their collective expression of the toll war takes on the home front. Eric Crouse has done well to recover a wide range of voices from small town Maine—voices of anger, confusion, and anguish—that echo loudly today.
— Michael S. Foley, College of Staten Island, CUNY, and editor of Dear Dr. Spock: Letters About the Vietnam War to America's Favorite Baby Doctor
Eric Crouse has put together a fascinating volume of letters from small-town Maine to their senator regarding the Vietnam War. Arranged chronologically and thematically, the letters are illuminated by Crouse's carefully researched 'editor's notes' which set the context and explain references in the letters. These missives reflect the heartfelt and often poignant views of ordinary people trying to come to terms with a costly and unpopular war. Especially in the light of our involvement in yet another costly and unpopular war, these letters speak not only to their own time but to ours.
— Janann Sherman, University of Memphis and author of No Place for a Woman: A Life of Senator Margaret Chase Smith