| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.2

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Book Review

Northern Passage: American Vietnam War Resisters in Canada. By John Hagan. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001. xvi, 269 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-674-00471-X.)

In The Things They Carried (1990), the Vietnam War veteran Tim O'Brien describes the dilemma of a recent draftee contemplating whether to cross into Canada or be inducted for service in the Vietnam War. As he recalls, he could not risk the "embarrassment" of being called a traitor and so did not summon up the courage to escape. He writes, "I was a coward. I went to the war." 1

An estimated sixty thousand U.S. citizens, faced with similar dilemmas, made the decision to cross over to Canada, as draft evaders, deserters, or life partners of military service resisters. There, they faced criticism from across the U.S. political spectrum. Unsurprisingly, the Nixon administration's attack dog, Patrick Buchanan, castigated the escapees; but the antiwar activists Tom Hayden and Joan Baez also accused the expatriates of ducking the antiwar movement's struggles. Draft resisters sometimes felt guilty for escaping to relative safety and wondered whether jail in the United States might not have been a more morally defensible choice. . . .

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