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Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Softcover in excellent condition: unmarked, slightest wear, the lower corners of the first 80 pages are slightly bent forward. xlv + 151 pages. [11oz]. Book.

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Wraps (PB) in near fine condition. In the fall of 1967, Carol McEldowney, a twenty-four-year-old community organizer living in Cleveland, embarked on a remarkable journey. In a climate of growing domestic unrest and international turmoil, she traveled illegally to North Vietnam with fellow members of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) to meet the enemy face-to-face. She was determined to understand the foe that had troubled America's leaders in Washington since the end of World War II. With an eye toward history and a recognition of the significance of her journey, McEldowney documented her experiences in the journal reproduced in this book. 151 pages.

Condizione: Fine. 1st Ed. llustrated with B&W photographs. SIGNED & inscribed by ELIZABETH R. MOCK on title page. Memoir, Vietnam, Signed. Signed by Author.

Unbound. Condizione: Very Good. Inaugural issue. Small quarto. Corner-stapled leaves mimeographed on both sides. 7pp. Folded twice for mailing with three sets of staple holes for closure,label addressed to Carol McEldowney on final page (see below), very good with modest tanning and edgewear. A Wisconsin-based anti-Vietnam War newsletter with country-wide updates on the movement. The National Co-ordinating Committee to End the War in Viet Nam had recently formed during the Assembly of Unrepresented People conference in Washington, D.C. in early August of 1965; its goal was to coordinate nationwide movements and present a united front to the U.S. government. The recipient of the newsletter, Carol McEldowney was, according the introduction to her papers at U Mass Boston, ".a pioneer in the women's self-defense movement, an original contributor to *Our Bodies, Ourselves*, and [she] traveled to Vietnam to interview citizens about their experiences during the war . Her *Hanoi Journal* was published by the University of Massachusetts Press in 2007.".