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Reporting Vietnam Part Two: American Journalism 1969-1975 Hardcover – October 1, 1998

by Milton J. Bates (Compiler), Lawrence Lichty (Compiler), Paul Miles (Compiler),

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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.

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In the predawn morning of May 9, 1970, Richard Nixon left the White House and went to the Lincoln Memorial to speak with a handful of antiwar protesters, most of them college students. The nervous president, who, an assistant later said, "wanted to know what they thought," and the awed students talked amiably for a time, and then all concerned went about their business, Nixon conducting a war, the students trying to end it. So reported Dan Oberdorfer for the Washington Post in one of the dozens of stories, profiles, articles, and dispatches collected in this volume of Vietnam War-era journalism, the second of two content-packed books in a Library of America set. Among the many highlights of the second volume are reports by New York Times correspondent Sydney Schanberg (of The Killing Fields fame) on the deadly aftermath of the American invasion of Cambodia; Seymour Hersh's coverage of the My Lai massacre, in which American soldiers under the command of Lt. William Calley killed 109 South Vietnamese civilians; U.S. Senator John McCain's account for U.S. News and World Report of his six years as a prisoner of war; and, for a weird home-front spin, Hunter S. Thompson's hallucinogen-fueled reportage from the 1972 Democratic National Convention. The complete text of Michael Herr's Dispatches, an influential and estimable book, is included, as well. Students of Vietnam War history will find this and its companion volume to be essential sources. --Gregory McNamee

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One of the few achievements of the long Vietnam conflict seems to have been its reporting, as distinct in its own way as the World War II stories of Ernie Pyle and A.J. Liebling. The Vietnam correspondents overcame the official "credibility gap" with a journalistic style that could be cool and defiantly factual, or personal, or sometimes exuberantly paranoid, echoing the soldiers themselves. The style develops as you read these two marvelous volumes: the early news accounts of advisers give way by mid-decade to a mission confusion and a growing respect for the underestimated Vietcong ("We used to call the enemy Victor Charlie. But now we call him Charles. Mr. Charles."). After the 1968 Tet Offensive, a more personal, sardonic voice emerges to match the bitter experience. In all, 80 writers survey the complex scene from all angles?from Don Moser's terrific anatomy of a 1968 guerrilla bombing to first-person accounts by POWs like John McCain, while Norman Mailer watches the street battles waged back home. Not everything here is literature, but the average is high. The collection concludes with Michael Herr's masterly, jungle-weary memoir, "Dispatches." Highly recommended for history, journalism, and literature collections.?Nathan Ward, "Library Journal"
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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‎857 pages

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‎1883011590

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‎978-1883011598

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‎5.2 x 1.2 x 8.2 inches

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peor

A low moment in our history and a hard memory to erase

Reviewed in the United States on July 4, 2019

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It is no wonder that the people of the United States rebelled against this war. It was painful to see the American government as a surrogate of the French when they could not hold their colony in Southeast Asia, and we gladly assumed their role.

I was a peripheral participant in this war, because, even though I did not shoulder an M-1 or shoot any VietCong, I had to see what the war had done to the bodies and minds of the soldiers who came to my military hospital, a planeload a week.

And I felt it twice when, wearing my greens, even though I just served in the Army Medical Corps, I had to run a gauntlet of pure hate in the looks of otherwise beautiful young college men and women in a college campus.

What is worse, through my contact with career Army officers in 1969 and 70, I knew that what was been told the American people about the war was a lie. However, it was my duty as an officer to keep it to myself.

Pedro R. Ortegon, M. D.

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Billie

The Only 3 Vietnam War Books You need to Read

Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2015

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Of the hundreds of books on the Vietnam War (which the Vietnamese rightfully call "The American War"), the two volumes of "Reporting Vietnam" and "America's Longest War" by Herrings are the only books you need to read to get a complete picture of the War.

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Barbara C. Marrs

collections of reporters observations of the Vietnam War

Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2015

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This collection of reporters who were in Vietnam it gives a view that each reporter observed during the fighting and the out come. How the history of Vietnam changed and why. The collection of articles covers during and after the war. There are questions as to why did the US fought the war the way it did.

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larry loebig

History as it unfolded

Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2014

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excellent retrospective of vietnam war

Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2015

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Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2016

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Book was in good condition thank you.

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Fedoradude

Not what I expected, but...

Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2015

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Not exactly what I expected but still good insights. What I'd expected was reporters' "war stories" about reporting the War. Instead, this book is a collection of selected print media stories on the War - both over there in SEA as well as at home.

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Terrific Articles - but don't stop here!

Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2004

This very valuable compilation of historically important news articles and its companion (Part One) should be on the shelf of every person who wants to gain a deeper understanding of the Vietnam War. I can't review the articles contained, but know that there are many important pieces. Some of them are the Doris Kearns article on LBJ, John McCain's article on his captivity, Michael Kinsley on Kissinger and Harvard, several on the various incursions in countries neighboring Vietnam, and several on the fall of South Vietnam.
Some of the other famous inclusions are Seymour Hersh on My Lai and James Michener on Kent State, and Stewart Alsop on how the draft was implemented expressed America's Class System. There are many more.
But as I said about Part One, you will also need to read other things. This collection really only represents one side of the debate. At the time it was not as one sided as everyone remembers now. There really was support for the war in the population. Yes, it declined as time passed, but even today many feel that we lost more because we mishandled things more than because the war was wrong. However, that is neither here nor there for this collection. It is a terrific collection. My point is that you can't know the war and how it affected America without reading these articles. But you also can't know its full effects without reading more than these articles.

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