Volume 21, Number 3 · March 7, 1974
As Good As They Come
By Nicholas von Hoffman
Many Battles: The Autobiography of Ernest Gruening
by Ernest Gruening
Liveright, 564 pp., $12.95
October 7, 1963, was the date that Ernest Gruening first attacked the Vietnam war from the Senate floor. A few months later he did it again, saying on March 10, 1964, all that needed to be said: 'I consider the life of one American boy worth more than this putrid mess. I consider every additional life that is sacrificed in this forlorn venture a tragedy. Someday…if this sacrificing is continued it will be denounced as a crime.'
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