Nixon's War with Students: Campus Unrest in the Vietnam Era

J. Samuel Walker recounts the dramatic standoff between a populist Republican president and protesting college students-and what the crisis of higher education under President Nixon can teach us today. College students frustrated with the state of American society and foreign policy under a Republican president, rising up in protest across the country.Sound familiar? With new sources and fresh perspective, esteemed historian J.Samuel Walker studies the campus crisis of the late 1960s and early 1970s under President Richard Nixon, during the protracted conflict in Vietnam and roiling racial tensions in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement. Walker tells how Nixon’s administration responded to the intense, and sometimes violent, unrest on college campuses across the United States, which became a prominent policy issue during the first four years of his presidency.A Gallup poll taken in May 1970 showed that campus unrest was rated as the “country’s leading problem,” outranking the war, ot