American Ordeal: The Antiwar Movement of the Vietnam EraAn American Ordeal is a comprehensive interpretive history that covers the anti war movement in the USA throughout the entire Vietnam era. This study offers a narrative of the struggle that took place on the home front, even as the war itself was being waged in South east Asia. Portraying the movement as a social force that energized people culturally yet failed to develop enduring political strength, the authors view the war as part of the long