Jane Fonda's War: A Political Biography of an Antiwar Icon Mary Hershberger "What she said got about as much attention as Leonid Brezhnev" quipped an insider in the Nixon administration. Jane Fonda, as the enormous interest in her recent memoir reveals, has become as iconic figure in American culture. But her activities in opposition to the Vietnam War remain the most intriguing and controversial moments in a storied life. They are the subject of Mary Hershberg's compelling new book, the first comprehensive account of Fonda's antiwar campaigning. Jane Fonda's War recounts the evolution of Fonda's political leading up to her bold antiwar stance. It charts the obsessive interest with the actress on the part of the Nixon government and the dirty tricks that were employed against her, including pressuring the Justice Department to charge her with treason. It follows Fonda on her controversial visits to Hanoi, and it documents the fury these trips provoked among many Americans, an anger that still finds an echo today. Based on unprecedented access to Fonda's twenty-foot-thick FBI files, interviews with former prisoners of the war who met Fonda in Hanoi in 1972, and a broad range of contemporaneous press reports, Jane Fonda's War is an essential complement to her own story and an important corrective to pervasive right-wing mythmaking. Mary Hershberg is the author of Traveling to Vietnam: American Peace Activists and the War. She lives with her family in Columbus, Ohio.