{"product_id":"peace-in-the-mountains-tom-weyant-9781621905714","title":"Peace in the Mountains: Northern Appalachian Students Protest the Vietnam War","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeace in the Mountains\u003c\/i\u003e analyzes student activism at the University of Pittsburgh, Ohio University, and West Virginia University during the Vietnam War era. Drawing from a wide variety of sources including memoirs, periodicals, archival manuscript collections, and college newspapers such as \u003ci\u003eThe Pitt News\u003c\/i\u003e, author Thomas Weyant tracks the dynamics of a student-led campus response to the war in real time and outside the purview of the national media. Along the way, he musters evidence for an emerging social and political conscience among the student bodies of northern Appalachia, citing politics on campus, visions of patriotism and dissent, campus citizenship, antiwar activism and draft resistance, campus issues, and civil rights as major sites of contention and exploration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough this regional chronicle of student activism during the Vietnam War era, Weyant holds to one reoccurring and unifying theme: citizenship. His account shows that political activism and civic engagement were by no means reserved to students at elite colleges; on the contrary, Appalachian youth were giving voice to the most vexing questions of local and national responsibility, student and citizen identity, and the role of the university in civil society. Rich in primary source material from student op-eds to administrative documents, \u003ci\u003ePeace in the Mountains\u003c\/i\u003e draws a new map of student activism in the 1960s and early 1970s. Weyant's study is a thoughtful and engaging addition to both Appalachian studies and the historiography of the Vietnam War era and is sure to appeal not only to specialists--Appalachian scholars, political historians, political scientists, and sociologists--but to college students and general readers as well.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tom Weyant\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1621905713\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781621905714\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Tennessee Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/07\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.30w x 0.90d","brand":"Tom Weyant","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48439861641471,"sku":"9781621905714","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a7a01bde-6055-4559-8f1f-f2e99a74049d.jpg?v=1777179578","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/peace-in-the-mountains-tom-weyant-9781621905714","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}