Until the Last Gun Is Silent

“Until the Last Gun Is Silent is a remarkable and revelatory book. Matthew F. Delmont uses the stories of Coretta Scott King and war hero Dwight ‘Skip’ Johnson, along with many others, to give us a fresh look at the high and lasting costs of the Vietnam War and how Black Americans, as they did before and do now, navigated the tension between patriotism and protest, Americanism and activism.”—Henry Louis Gates, Jr., New York Times bestselling author of Stony the Road

Matthew F. Delmont is the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor of History at Dartmouth College. A Guggenheim Fellow and expert on African American history and the history of civil rights, he is the author of five books, most recently Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and several academic journals, and on NPR. Originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota, Delmont earned his BA from Harvard University and his MA and PhD from Brown University.