What with all of the rumblings about the calling up of the IRR (Individual Ready Reserve) and the probability of a draft if the Chimp gets re-elected, time for this librarian to make a reading recommendation. You might be able to find this great out of print work at your local library. I have a personally autographed and inscribed first edition straight from Sherry's hand:

Hell no, we won't go! : resisting the draft during the Vietnam War by Sherry Gershon Gottlieb. New York, N.Y. : Viking, c1991. (ISBN: 0670839353)



And here's my amazon.com review from May 16, 2000 for good measure:

Bad timing in publishing

Yup. Another review of a book no one read (but should have). If I remember right, Sherry's bad luck was having this book published simultaneously with the onset of the Gulf (not)War. This book was poised for moderate success when WHAMMO! America's jingoistic instincts rose up with the Gulf (not)War and no one wanted to hear about how to NOT be sent off to kill our pigment enriched brethren. Anyway, this book contains an excellent cross section of attitudes about not getting drafted, including a very direct and cogent essay by Muhammad Ali. Generally, this is a mix of interesting and amusing anecdotes involving everything from peanut butter to letting animal scratches fester before you take your physical. The author spent a lot of time and effort on this book and it is a crime that it didn't sell better.