In the Service of Their Country Author:Willard Gaylin This extraordinary account of Selective Service violators who chose jail rather than deferment or exile is based on Dr. Gaylin's two year research project intended originally as a scientific study. Using psychoanalytic techniques, he interviewed twenty-six white and black imprisoned war resisters to determine who they were, why they went to pris... more »on, and what effects it had on them. Of these interviews, which were taped to preserve an undistorted record, Dr. Gaylin writes: "When I started the project I had no idea of publishing a book for the general reader. My interest was purely intellectual, not emotional. But then I had no met these young men. I had not seen the walls of a prison, I had not measured the brevity of time in which youth can be lost and hope abandoned. I came as an observer and left as a participant". "In the Service of Their Country" is a moving account of the feelings and motives and hopefulness and hopelessness of the imprisoned war resisters. Every American who silently assents when a voice is raised against the war ought to read this book." -Julian Bond« less