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Dear Senator Smith: Small-Town Maine Writes to Senator Margaret Chase Smith about the Vietnam War

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In the years 1967-1971, Senator Margaret Chase Smith used to be the only female member of the Senate and her reputation of integrity and independent thinking attracted the attention of those in search of to consider and voice their opinion on the Vietnam War experience. Dear Senator Smith is an edited selection of letters that make clear the far-reaching and polarized tensions that exploded on the scene all over Lyndon Johnson’s government and continued into Richard Nixon’s administration. These letters written by abnormal people living in Maine touch on class, race, gender, foreign policy, patriotism, and dissent and provide valuable insight on the affect of the war on the home front, the specter of communism, and the strength of the anti-war movement. By going beyond the circle of political and anti-war elites, Dear Senator Smith shows how abnormal small-town Americans upheld or protested Cold War ideology, offered new paradigms, and typically experienced the new challenges that correlated with the battles being fought both in Southeast Asia and on the home front.

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