Polite Protesters: The American Peace Movement of the 1980s

Syracuse Studies on Peace and Conflict Resolution

by John Lofland

This work shows how the Peace Movement in the USA in the 1980s was composed of small, scattered and meanly-funded organisations. It describes how these activists combatted the US government's military build-up by using tactics normally associated with polite interest groups.

321 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1993