Clive Webb

Guilty: the conclusion of many trials. But this verdict was unusual, delivered by a jury comprising the greatest minds of the twentieth century: Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, James Baldwin and Stokely Carmichael, and over a dozen international luminaries—all presided over by the legendary philosopher-mathematician Bertrand Russell. The defendant was unusual, too: the United States government. In Vietdamned, award-winning...