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05800aam a22010338i 4500 001 E608536C550C11E9884C074097128E48 003 SILO 005 20190402010148 008 180831s2019 nyu 000 0deng 010 $a 2018041164 020 $a 125016110X 020 $a 9781250161109 035 $a (OCoLC)1031948299 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d GK8 $d ZVR $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-vt--- $a a-vt--- 100 1 $a Lee, Heath Hardage, $e author. 245 14 $a The League of Wives : $b the untold story of the women who took on the U.S. Government to bring their husbands home / $c Heath Hardage Lee. 246 30 $a Untold story of the women who took on the U.S. Government to bring their husbands home 250 $a First edition. 263 $a 1904 264 1 $a New York : $b St. Martin's Press, $c [2019] 300 $a pages cm 505 0 $a The right wife -- It can't happen to us -- A Great Society for some, not for all -- Wives or widows? -- A reluctant sorority -- New girl village -- The league of wives -- Incredibly screwed up -- So you say you want a revolution? -- "Nixon's the one!" -- Go public -- Don't mess with Texas -- May day debut -- Here comes your nineteenth nervous breakdown -- Write Hanoi and silent nights -- Is peace at hand? -- "We chose to be together" -- To the First Ladies of America!. 520 $a "The true story of the fierce band of women who battled Washington--and Hanoi--to bring their husbands home from the jungles of Vietnam. On February 12, 1973, one hundred and fifteen men who, just six years earlier, had been high flying Navy and Air Force pilots, shuffled, limped, or were carried off a huge military transport plane at Clark Air Base in the Philippines. These American servicemen had endured years of brutal torture, kept shackled and starving in solitary confinement, in rat-infested, mosquito-laden prisons, the worst of which was The Hanoi Hilton. Months later, the first Vietnam POWs to return home would learn that their rescuers were their wives, a group of women that included Jane Denton, Sybil Stockdale, Louise Mulligan, Andrea Rander, Phyllis Galanti, and Helene Knapp. These women, who formed The National League of Families, would never have called themselves "feminists," but they had become the POW and MIAs most fervent advocates, going to extraordinary lengths to facilitate their husbands' freedom--and to account for missing military men--by relentlessly lobbying government leaders, conducting a savvy media campaign, conducting covert meetings with antiwar activists, most astonishingly, helping to code secret letters to their imprisoned husbands. In a page-turning work of narrative non-fiction, Heath Hardage Lee tells the story of these remarkable women for the first time in The League of Wives."--Biography. 611 27 $a Vietnam War (1961-1975) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01431664 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 650 0 $a Vietnam War, 1961-1975 $x Prisoners and prisons, North Vietnamese. 650 0 $a Military spouses $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Families of military personnel $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Prisoners of war $z Vietnam $v Biography. 650 0 $a Prisoners of war $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Air pilots, Military $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Vietnam War, 1961-1975 $z United States. 650 7 $a Air pilots, Military. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00802472 650 7 $a Families of military personnel. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00920136 650 7 $a Military spouses. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01021483 650 7 $a Prisoners of war. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01077227 651 0 $a United States $x Politics and government $y 1969-1974. 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 651 7 $a Vietnam. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204778 651 4 $a United States. 651 4 $a Vietnam. 653 $a Hanoi Hilton $a Hanoi Hilton 655 7 $a Biography. $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast 941 $a 40 952 $l WHPE115 $d 20240613010921.0 952 $l ALPE516 $d 20240417014838.0 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240409032958.0 952 $l GZPE631 $d 20240305015448.0 952 $l SMPE094 $d 20240104015618.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231017020144.0 952 $l CMPE792 $d 20230629014048.0 952 $l STPC124 $d 20230418015920.0 952 $l WBPB115 $d 20230209023725.0 952 $l TKPE492 $d 20211118022356.0 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722061001.0 952 $l KIPB845 $d 20210212012344.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20200529015607.0 952 $l ZYPE837 $d 20200502012140.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20200204094535.0 952 $l GUPF501 $d 20200130011906.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20200110080905.0 952 $l FYPI314 $d 20200110012446.0 952 $l YMPD532 $d 20191213024808.0 952 $l OJPC027 $d 20191106122122.0 952 $l XAPE737 $d 20191017025859.0 952 $l SHPC094 $d 20191015012657.0 952 $l KJPF566 $d 20190824010941.0 952 $l FPPC224 $d 20190817011302.0 952 $l YUPD232 $d 20190813012452.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20190726010242.0 952 $l UJPE911 $d 20190716012546.0 952 $l HUAX887 $d 20190604144545.0 $m DS 559.4 L44 2019 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20190601010036.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20190525010537.0 952 $l YTPG232 $d 20190524014930.0 952 $l TFPI826 $d 20190524014700.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20190524011509.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20190524010951.0 952 $l GAAX314 $d 20190524010219.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20190514013730.0 952 $l XBPE737 $d 20190507012048.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20190507011418.0 952 $l EJPD605 $d 20190429182535.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20190403010107.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=E608536C550C11E9884C074097128E48 994 $a C0 $b C@VInitiate Another SILO Locator Search