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隨機命運：越戰抽籤如何塑造了一代人
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在他一絲不苟的事實彙編中，阿布尼正確地指責了故意歪曲的越戰徵兵制度，該制度有利於特權階層而注定了其他人的命運。在這 270 億龐大的一代人中，只有 300 萬人在戰區服役，因此大量的緩役人員得以倖免。相反，在 1966 年最大規模的徵兵期間，為了避免校園外的所有反抗，麥克納馬拉令人髮指的 100,000 計劃降低了智力測試，創建了他們所謂的“白痴軍團”，他們在越南死去的人數不成比例。這本書的力量在於 160 多名回答網站要求重述彩票對他們生活的影響的男人的生動回憶。
邁拉·麥克弗森 (Myra MacPherson)
越南經典著作《歲月流逝：越南與鬧鬼的一代》的作者
這是一本非常有趣也非常重要的書。首先，作為一名在 1969 年 12 月參加越南時代第一次抽籤（#206；重新分類為 1-A，但未被選中）的人，我對此特別感興趣，當時我還是一名 22 歲的一年級畢業生學生。它幫助我更清楚地記住了我自己的彩票經歷的一些細節，並讓我能夠將它對我生活的影響放在其他經歷過它的人的背景下。我認為這本書會在那些彩票是我們成長的重要組成部分的那一代人中找到一個容易接受的讀者。
其次，這本書對選秀、彩票和一系列相關主題的精心編寫和深入研究的描述性敘述，以及出現在結尾處的抽籤人個人回憶的大量摘錄。除第一章外，所有章節共同提供了現代美國歷史上這一形成時期的重要記錄。在構建這份記錄時，作者出色地利用了令人印象深刻的各種來源，包括政府文件、同期新聞報導以及來自多個社會科學學科的學術分析。我可能會補充說，我特別欣賞這本書對選秀和彩票對受其影響的年輕人的不同種族和社會經濟影響的敏感性。
所涵蓋的大部分事實材料都可以在其他地方找到，但本書以一種特別深思熟慮且令人耳目一新的方式呈現這些材料。在越南戰爭時期教授越南戰爭或美國的高中和大學教師（包括我）應該會發現這本書很有價值。我還強烈建議高中、大學和公共圖書館將 Random Destiny 添加到他們的收藏中。
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隨機命運：越戰抽籤如何塑造了一代人
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Random Destiny: How the Vietnam War Draft Lottery Shaped a Generation
by Wesley Abney
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In his scrupulous compendium of facts, Abney rightly faults the deliberately skewed Vietnam war draft system that favored the privileged and doomed others. In this vast generation of 27,000 million men, only 3 million served in the combat zone, so large numbers with deferments were spared. Instead, in 1966, during the largest call-up, and to avoid all out-campus revolt, McNamara’s heinous Project 100,000 lowered the mental test, creating the “Moron Corps” as they were called, who died in Vietnam in disproportionate numbers. The power in this book lies in vivid reminiscences of more than 160 men who answered a website request to recount the effect of the lottery on their lives.
Myra MacPherson
Author of the Vietnam classic, 'Long Time Passing: Vietnam and the Haunted Generation'
This is both a very interesting and very important book. First, it was of particular interest to me as someone who was subject to the first Vietnam-era draft lottery in December 1969 (#206; reclassified 1-A, but not drafted) when I was a 22-year old first-year graduate student. It helped me remember more clearly some of the details of my own experience with the lottery and allowed me to put its impact on my life in the context of other men who went through it. I think that the book will find a receptive audience among of those that generation for whom the lottery was a significant part of our coming of age.
Second, the book’s well-written and well-researched descriptive narratives of the draft, the lottery, and a range of cognate topics, together with the numerous excerpts from the personal recollections of men who were in the lottery pool that appear at the end of all but the first chapter combine to provide an important record of this formative period in modern American history. In constructing this record, the author has done an excellent job of drawing on an impressive variety of sources, including government documents, contemporaneous news reports, and scholarly analyses from several social science disciplines. I might add that I particularly appreciate the book’s sensitivity to the differential racial and socio-economic impact the draft and the lottery had on the young men affected by it.
Much of the factual material covered is available elsewhere, but the book presents it in a particularly thoughtful and refreshingly accessible manner. High school and college instructors (including me) who teach about the Vietnam War or America during the Vietnam War-era should find the book of great value. I would also highly recommend that high school, college, and public libraries add Random Destiny to their collections.
William A. Joseph,
Wellesley College, USA
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Random Destiny: How the Vietnam War Draft Lottery Shaped a Generation
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