"A compelling, revealing analysis of the generation of American males who came of draft age during the Vietnam War. The authors were high staff members on President Ford's clemency board. They demonstrate, among many other things, that wealthy, educated, well-connected men had many legal ways of avoiding military service in general and Vietnam in particular. There was a high correlation between low socioeconomic status and Vietnam combat service." -- Amazon.com.

Includes index.

1.The Vietnam generation -- 2. Avoiders -- Channeling -- Artful dodgers -- Aid and comfort -- Safety in service -- 3. Evaders -- The resistance -- Breakdown -- The ones who got away -- The wheels of justice -- 4. Deserters -- Over the hill -- The bottom third -- Kooks, heads, brothers -- Vietnam and back -- Canceling them out -- 5. Exiles -- On the run -- Taking exile -- America-Canadians and American-Swedes -- Coming home -- 6. Amnesty -- Morality and mythology -- Clemency, not amnesty -- Blanket pardons -- The next war -- 7. Legacies.