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Reporting Vietnam Part Two: American Journalism
Reporting Vietnam Part Two: American Journalism
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  • Title: Reporting Vietnam Part Two: American Journalism 1969-1975 (First Printing)
  • Description: Gathers original newspaper and magazine articles to capture the immediacy of events as they happened during the course of the war.Green cloth. 857pp. Bound in ribbon page marker. Decorated end papers. First Printing. Full refund if not satisfied.; First published for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the fall of Saigon, this unique two-volume anthology from the Library of America evokes a turbulent and controversial period in American history and journalism.; Reporting Vietnam Part Two: American Journalism 1969-1975, along with its companion volume, captures the bravery, fear, cruelty, suffering, anger, and sorrow of a tragic conflict. This second volume traces events from the revelation of the My Lai massacre in 1969 through the fall of Saigon in 1975. Here are Peter Kann on the ambiguities of pacification; Gloria Emerson on the South Vietnamese debacle in Laos; Donald Kirk on declining American morale; Sydney Schanberg on the fall of Phnom Penh and the victory of the Khmer Rouge; Philip Caputo, Keyes Beech, Peter Arnett, and Malcolm Browne on the last days of South Vietnam.; Writers who observed the turmoil in the United States are included as well: Francine du Plessis Gray on factions within the protest movement; Michael Kinsley recounting a confrontation between Henry Kissinger and his Harvard colleagues; James Michener meticulously reconstructing the Kent State shootings; Doris Kearns listening to Lyndon Johnson's anguished recollections; Hunter S. Thompson watching veterans protest Richard Nixon's renomination.; Included in full is Dispatches, journalist Michael Herr's acclaimed impressionistic memoir of his immersion in the exhilaration, dread, and sorrow of the Vietnam War.; This volume contains a detailed chronology of the war, historical maps, biographical profiles of the journalists, explanatory notes, a glossary of military terms, an index, and a 32-page insert of photographs of the correspondents, many from private collections and never before seen.
    LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
  • Details: Title: Reporting Vietnam Part Two: American Journalism 1969-1975 (First Printing)

    Author Name: Bates, Milton J. [Compiler]; Lichty, Lawrence [Compiler]; Miles, Paul [Compiler]; Spector, Ronald H. [Compiler]; Young, Marilyn [Compiler];

    Edition: First Printing

    ISBN Number: 1883011590

    ISBN-13: 9781883011598

    Illustrator: Illustrated

    Location Published: New York, Library of America: 1998

    Binding: Hardcover

    Book Condition: Like New

    Jacket Condition: Like New

    Type: Hardcover

    Categories: Military

    Keywords: army, defense, fighting, military, service, war



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