{"title":"Book Reviews : The Trial of Dr. Spock. By JESSICA MITFORD. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. Pp. xii, 272. $5.95.)","authors":"F. Wormuth","doi":"10.1177/106591297002300212","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Both the legal order (the courts) and the political order (the party system) have failed us. Neither has permitted a challenge to the Vietnam war. Opposition has therefore expressed itself outside these institutions. Apparently in the hope that if the most prominent opponents of the war were penalized the rest would be silenced, the Department of Justice on January 5, 1968, obtained an indictment of the venerable pediatrician, Dr. Spock, the Yale chaplain, William Coffin, Jr. an","PeriodicalId":83314,"journal":{"name":"The Western political quarterly","volume":"79 1","pages":"412 - 412"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1970-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Western political quarterly","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/106591297002300212","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Both the legal order (the courts) and the political order (the party system) have failed us. Neither has permitted a challenge to the Vietnam war. Opposition has therefore expressed itself outside these institutions. Apparently in the hope that if the most prominent opponents of the war were penalized the rest would be silenced, the Department of Justice on January 5, 1968, obtained an indictment of the venerable pediatrician, Dr. Spock, the Yale chaplain, William Coffin, Jr. an