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Refusal to Submit reflects on the personal sacrifices necessary to make political change.Author Richard Gould documents the Draft Resistance Movement and a young man’s coming of age during the Vietnam War. He details his decision to refuse to be drafted into the U.S. army and the events that follow—his arrest, trial, and eventual imprisonment in a federal prison in Safford, Arizona. As his story unfolds, the origins of the war and his reasons for opposing it emerge, placing his prison experience within the larger framework of the historical events occurring on a national and global scale.Structured as letters to his college-age children, he aims not only to document the confusion, anger, and atrocities of the Viet Nam era, but also to pass the history of resistance on to the next generation of young activists and critical thinkers. The letter format carries the story forward, stitching together historical events and personal experience, becoming an invitation to anyone faced with moral decisions about national policy in our modern times.

Richard Gould (1947-2013) was a devoted father, high school history teacher, author, historical researcher, taxi driver, and Viet Nam era draft resister. At the time of his death, he was putting finishing touches on his latest book, Refusal to Submit, about his own experiences leading up to and following his refusal of induction into the U.S. armed forces waging war in Viet Nam. He is the author of an earlier work, The Life and Times of Richard Castro, Bridging a Cultural Divide (University Press of Colorado), which earned the 2007 Colorado Book Award for History and Biography.