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Laddar... Jane Fonda's War: A Political Biography of an Antiwar Iconav Mary Hershberger
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One of the most popular movie actresses of the 1960s and 1970s, Fonda was also among the most committed and visible antiwar activists of the era. Coming on the heels of Jane Fonda's own memoir, this is the first book to document one of the most interesting (and least known) chapters in Fonda's life - her opposition to the Vietnam war, including the first comprehensive account of her controversial trips to Hanoi, as well as her extensive efforts on behalf of American GIs. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Fonda is a highly intelligent and thoughtful woman who did not take her decisions and actions lightly, but only after much investigation and thought. One of the most important things she did was organizing the Winter Soldier platform, providing a place for returning Vietnamese vets to tell about what was happening in Vietnam during a time when their government did not want to hear it. Illegal bombing, undeclared war, Cambodia, you know the story. The important thing that Fonda wanted to happen with this process was for responsibility to be placed NOT ONLY on individual soldiers in instances such as the My Lai Massacre, but also on the people giving the orders, the officers and the government. This involved a big freedom of speech battle.
It is intriguing to read the story and follow the thread of lies that led to the many myths surrounding Fonda, which Hershberger clearly draws. Here is the lesson in rumors, media games, purposeful political games and it is fascinating. The way the stories about POWs being tortured were told is worth a media course in itself. It is amazing to hear POWs claim they were tortured in a time and place that did not happen, and important to look at the effects of trauma on eye witnesses once again. I certainly wouldn't expect the details to be kept straight in traumatic situations. And so we see another lesson in the need for multiple sources and other methods of corroboration. One of the thing that made this timing important was that because he did not want to withdraw, Nixon specifically targeted Fonda and blamed her for torture.
The fact that Hershberger is here focused on a very specific issue, the activism of Jane Fonda, makes this a quick and clean read. 5 stars. ( )