Volume 10, Number 12 · June 20, 1968
The Draft and Its Opposition
By Florence Howe, Paul Lauter
The Draft? A Report Prepared for the Peace Education Division of the American Friends Service Committee
Hill and Wang, 112 pp., $1.25
How to End the Draft: The Case for an All-Volunteer Army
Congressmen Horton, Schweiker, Shriver, Stafford and Whalen, edited by Douglas Bailey, edited by Steve Herbits
National Press, 145 pp., $2.95
Bitter Greetings
by Jean Carper
Grossman, 205 pp., $5.00
The New Draft Law: A Manual for Lawyers and Counsellors
edited by Ann Fagan Ginger
National Lawyers Guild, 140 pp., $10.00
1001 Ways to Beat the Draft
by Tuli Kupferberg, by Robert Bashlow
Grove, n.p., $0.75
How to Stay Out of the Army: A Guide to Your Rights Under the Draft Law
by Conrad J. Lynn
Monthly Review and Grove Press, 130 pp., $1.25
Why the Draft: The Case for a Volunteer Army
by James C. Miller III, et al.
Penguin, 197 pp., $1.25
National Lawyers Guild Practitioner, Vol. 26, No. 3 (Summer, 1967): Special issue on Selective Service
National Lawyers Guild, 53 pp., $1.00
Manual for Draft-Age Immigrants to Canada
edited by Mark Satin
House of Anansi (Toronto), 128 pp., $1.00
The Draft: A Handbook of Facts and Alternatives
edited by Sol Tax
University of Chicago, 497 pp., $12.95
During the last few years critics have been calling for reforms of the draft or for its end, some suggesting in its place either a volunteer army or a system of national service. The Marshall Commission Report, [1] for example, proposed ending college deferments and calling men by lottery, rather than through the idiosyncratic decisions of some 4,000 local draft boards. In the current political campaign, each candidate has had at least to acknowledge the widespread hostility to the draft by proposing major revisions (as Rockefeller did when he called for a lottery) or its eventual elimination (as Nixon and Kennedy have done—to begin after the war, to be sure). But the draft has continued, substantially unaltered, largely because it permits the President to wage war by administrative decree.
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