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"""Tom Hayden, legend of the Sixties and the antiwar movement, offers a powerful reflection that transcends caricature and stereotype, and reminds us why a democratic society needs a genuine mass opposition that points toward values of peace and justice.""—Viet Thanh Nguyen, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for The Sympathizer, and author of Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War ""There are terrible costs for forgetting our history, as Tom Hayden warns us in Hell No, his essential and passionate plea to remember the critical lessons of the anti-Vietnam War movement before it’s too late. May his moving cri de coeur inspire that long-awaited national reckoning with the largest and longest ever peace movement in American history.""—Susan Faludi, author of In the Darkroom and Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women ""The actual history of the Vietnam War and the movement to stop it is a heretofore largely obscured treasure trove for Americans looking to understand their country and themselves. Tom Hayden maps and evokes that rediscovered history for us as an eyewitness, a superior researcher, and a keen-eyed analyst of movements and international policy. Hell No portrays a national conscience on the move and how it succeeded despite all odds. All of us will be the better for reading this book.""—David Harris, author of Our War: What We Did in Vietnam and What It Did To Us ""Tom Hayden's stroke of genius at the end of his life was to write a short book about the campaign he helped wage to end the Vietnam War. In Hell No, he explains why it mattered then and matters now, and he tells those who stood up for justice, and those he hopes will follow, to never forget that they won—the soldiers came home, the killing stopped. That's a lot to get into a short book, but it's all there.""—Thomas Powers, author of The War at Home: Vietnam and the American People,1964-68 ""Tom Hayden gives an insider's view of the unprecedented movement against the Vietnam War—a movement that brought together (and divided) America. He chronicles and analyzes that broad opposition from its initial brave days through its singular final success. He also documents the ways politicians, police, and the FBI tried to destroy it. Critics accused the antiwar movement of treason; Hayden shows himself and fellow dissenters to be exemplary patriots. This is a necessary and hugely important book.""—Amy Wilentz, Professor of English, University of California, Irvine, and author of Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter from Haiti"

Tom Hayden, legend of the Sixties and the antiwar movement, offers a powerful reflection that transcends caricature and stereotype, and reminds us why a democratic society needs a genuine mass opposition that points toward values of peace and justice. - Viet Thanh Nguyen, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for The Sympathizer, and author of Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War -- Viet Thanh Nguyen Tom Hayden gives an insider's view of the unprecedented movement against the Vietnam War--a movement that brought together (and divided) America. He chronicles and analyzes that broad opposition from its initial brave days through its singular final success. He also documents the ways politicians, police, and the FBI tried to destroy it. Critics accused the antiwar movement of treason; Hayden shows himself and ?fellow dissenters ?to be exemplary patriots. This is a necessary and hugely important book. --Amy Wilentz -- Amy Wilentz The actual history of the Vietnam War and the movement to stop it is a heretofore largely obscured treasure trove for Americans looking to understand their country and themselves. Tom Hayden maps and evokes that rediscovered history for us as an eyewitness, a superior researcher, and a keen-eyed analyst of movements and international policy. Hell No portrays a national conscience on the move and how it succeeded despite all odds. All of us will be the better for reading this book. --David Harris, author of Our War: What We Did in Vietnam and What It Did To Us -- David Harris

Tom Hayden, legend of the Sixties and the antiwar movement, offers a powerful reflection that transcends caricature and stereotype, and reminds us why a democratic society needs a genuine mass opposition that points toward values of peace and justice. - Viet Thanh Nguyen, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for The Sympathizer, and author of Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War -- Viet Thanh Nguyen There are terrible costs for forgetting our history, as Tom Hayden warns us in Hell? No?, his essential and passionate plea to remember the critical lessons of the anti-Vietnam War movement before it's too late. May his moving cri de coeur inspire that long-awaited national reckoning with the largest and longest ever peace movement in American history. --Susan Faludi, author of In the Darkroom and Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women? -- Susan Faludi The actual history of the Vietnam War and the movement to stop it is a heretofore largely obscured treasure trove for Americans looking to understand their country and themselves. Tom Hayden maps and evokes that rediscovered history for us as an eyewitness, a superior researcher, and a keen-eyed analyst of movements and international policy. Hell No portrays a national conscience on the move and how it succeeded despite all odds. All of us will be the better for reading this book. --David Harris, author of Our War: What We Did in Vietnam and What It Did To Us -- David Harris Tom Hayden's stroke of genius at the end of his life was to write a short book about the campaign he helped wage to end the Vietnam War. In Hell No, he explains why it mattered then and matters now, and he tells those who stood up for justice, and those he hopes will follow, to never forget that they won--the soldiers came home, the killing stopped. That's a lot to get into a short book, but it's all there. --Thomas Powers, author of The War at Home: Vietnam and the American People,1964-68 -- Thomas Powers Tom Hayden's powerful and inspiring Hell No should be read by every American. It is an important history lesson and a call to participatory democracy that must never be forgotten. --Ron Kovic, Vietnam veteran, and author of Born on the Fourth of July? -- Ron Kovic Tom Hayden gives an insider's view of the unprecedented movement against the Vietnam War--a movement that brought together (and divided) America. He chronicles and analyzes that broad opposition from its initial brave days through its singular final success. He also documents the ways politicians, police, and the FBI tried to destroy it. Critics accused the antiwar movement of treason; Hayden shows himself and ?fellow dissenters ?to be exemplary patriots. This is a necessary and hugely important book. --Amy Wilentz, Professor of English, University of California, Irvine, and author of Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter from Haiti -- Amy Wilentz

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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.

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