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Witness to War: A Biography of Marguerite Higgins Hardcover – January 1, 1983

by Antoinette May (Author)

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January 1, 1983
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0825301610
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Beaufort Books; First Edition (January 1, 1983)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 274 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0825301610
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0825301612
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.25 pounds

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Antoinette May reads Tarot cards, chases ghosts, and collects myths. Her fascination with the unknown led her to write the bestselling Adventures of a Psychic that spent 42 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.
Antoinette’s love of legend inspired her debut novel Pilate’s Wife, which has been translated into 19 languages, The Sacred Well, the San Francisco Book Festival 2009 top place winner, and her latest novel, THE DETERMINED HEART: the Tale of Mary Shelley and Her Frankenstein.

A former newspaper editor, Antoinette writes weekly columns for the San Francisco Chronicle and the Sierra Lodestar. Her articles have appeared in Cosmopolitan, Self, and Country Living magazines
A native of La Jolla, CA, Antoinette later resided in Palo Alto, CA where she spent six years researching the historical background for Pilate’s Wife at Stanford University. An awarded-winning travel writer, Antoinette and her husband, Charles Herndon, have “settled” in the historic California gold country. Antoinette is the founding director of the annual Gold Rush Writers Conference.
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I loved this book & have re-read it numerous times through the years. Curious if any other reviewers have also read Fierce Ambition, a newer biography I just heard about on NPR. If so, what did you think?

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David C. Bennett

Female war correspondent

Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2022

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This is an insightful book about a courageous woman taking on the male-dominated field of war correspondents, and pulls no punches. There is a tendency by the author to lean heavily on sexual aspects of Marguerite’s career perhaps to the detriment of a fuller narrative.
Higgins was a champion in her work and greatly admired - and envied - by her peers.

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A. Hiniker

A great biography about a woman journalist who was a courageous ...

Reviewed in the United States on September 21, 2014

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A great biography about a woman journalist who was a courageous person and well ahead of her time. It is tragic that her life ended so soon. I loved the book!

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WCB

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Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2018

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Very fine biography of a very dynamic and brilliant woman war correspondent.

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L. Peat O'Neil

Pioneering war reporter and political savant

Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2014

Marguerite Higgins was ducking life fire in the trenches and scrambling up bombed-out rubble in WWII and Korea and Vietnam long before American women were permitted to fight on the front lines. An amazing story about one gutsy gal who was a Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent and finished her days as a friend to Lyndon and LadyBird Johnson. I just wonder why her achievements aren't so well known 50 years later.

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Catherine R. Cameron

It was earth shattering and very enlightening.

Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 1999

I could not put it down. The book is an in depth account of Margueritte Higgins life through some very difficult times of our nation. It encouraged me to try to find other books that Margueritte Higgins has written. Way to go Antoineete May.

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T. Berner

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Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2010

In many ways - her social life, her belief that a woman can go anywhere a man can - Maguerite Higgins was ahead of her time.

But in many ways, reading May's biography of Higgins makes you realize just how different and better she was from those who call themselves journalists today. Unlike, say, Dan Rather, she checked and rechecked her stories for accuracy; she refused to accept a "fact" just because it jived with her prejudices. Unlike most of the pretty faces and empty suits on TV, when she went to war, she went to war; she, alone with another writer, single handedly liberated Dachau by driving through German lines. And unlike, say Peter Jennings, who thinks his "ethics" should prevent him from warning Americans about to be murdered by terrorists, she saw no conflict between being an American and being a reporter; once, with a small group of soldiers under attack by hoards of Chinese troops, she took a crash course in first aid and saved several lives.

Ms. May's prose doesn't always serve Higgins well. It is too much "chick lit." We hear far too many times that Ms. Higgins thought her bottom was too big. We hear too much about the dinner parties and love affairs.

Fortunately, Ms. May gets much better when discussing the event which makes Higgins not just an inspiration for career minded women but for all people who admire foresight and decency. This was Ms. Higgins role in trying to prevent the coup against and the murder of Ngo Dihn Diem by the Kennedy Administration. Almost alone among her fellow reporters, Higgins went out and found the truth about the so-called Buddhist protestors. She sensed what was coming and tried to stop it. Once Diem fell, the whole horrible war played out like a Kabuki dance. We had to go in with both guns blazing because the coup had caused our ally to fall apart and we were bound to fail because we had already undermined ourselves.

Marguerite Higgins failed, but there is honor in failing when the cause is just. Higgins died in 1966 from an illness she picked up while she was in Vietnam. In a way, it was a blessing: there is somethig horrible about being proved a Cassandra and she was spared that fate. But her brilliant attempt to prevent stupid and arrogant people in power from leading us to disaster is an inspiration to all and we should be grateful to Ms. May for remembering.

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Janet Allison

Couldn't find this book anywhere else!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 27, 2012

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I've been searching for this book for a while, and was so pleased to find it. It was cheap, came quickly--and is a really good book. It's not a heavyweight or especially accomplished biography; I don't feel I really know Marguerite Higgins. But perhaps that's the point about her; I get the impression no one knew her terribly well. What I do get is a clear sense of what it might have been like to meet her, plus a sense of the times she lived in. I'm especially interested in the fact that her talent appears to have been getting the stories; she was not, by all accounts, a particularly talented writer. I'd have liked to read excerpts from her stories; the book contains a lot about her, but not much from her, and I'd have liked to hear her voice more often. But this is an interesting read, and I was genuinely thrilled to get hold of a copy.

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