Description: Rough Draft draws the curtain on the race and class inequities of the Selective Service during the Vietnam War. Amy J. Rutenberg argues that policy makers' idealized conceptions of Cold War middle-class masculinity directly affected whom they targeted for conscription and also for deferment. Federal officials believed that college educated men...
Brief description: Amy J. Rutenberg is Assistant Professor of History at Iowa State University. Follow her on Twitter @amyjay401.
Review Quotes:
Rutenberg has provided an exceptionally clear, interesting, and readable account of Vietnam-era draft avoidance and how it was actually abetted by the very governmental officials charged with bringing men into uniform.
-- "The Journal of Military History"