Specialized Topics: The
Draft
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| Baskir, Lawrence M. and William A. Strauss. Chance and
Circumstance : The Draft, the War, and the Vietnam
Generation. With a Foreword by Theodore M. Hesburgh. New
York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. Still the most complete study of the draft available, as well as dishonorable and general discharges from the military. Baskir was the General Counsel and Chief Executive Officer of President Ford's Clemency Board; Strauss was its Director of Planning and Management as well as the director of the staff that issued the final report. Contains extremely important information and statistics about various aspects and inequalities of the selective service system. The work was originally sponsored by the University of Notre Dame. |
