Exhaustively researched book about the Vietnam Veterans' protest movements against the war, against the Veterans' Adminsitration and the movement to build the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C. Examines motivations of the movement's leaders, including Jan Scruggs. While the book contains very little information on women veterans of the war and their activities, it is still a valuable source of information on the ideals and beliefs of the movement. Jan Scruggs is described as "a mildly disabled Army vet who had gotten his master's degree in psychology from American University and was still unemplpoyed two years later." Scruggs was attempting to get a government job with the 10 point veterans preference and claimed that it was not enforced by CPOs. Scruggs eventually (in 1977) handed out 600 questionnaires to Vietnam vets at local universities and discussed his findings with a [Washington?] Post reporter...and also suggested that in order to recover from the war, America needed a "national reconcilation"— read monument. Now the interesting thing is that NOW was by then pressuring Congress to end the veterans preference in hiring (so few women were veterans) and President Carter agreed with them. This didn't happen; the veteran's preference is still there - but it explains a lot.