Reporting Vietnam.

Reporting Vietnam.

Twenty-five years after the last American troops withdrew from Vietnam, this unique two-volume anthology from the Library of America evokes a turbulent and controversial period in American history and journalism. Drawn from original newspaper and magazine reports and contemporary books, this volume...

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Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Literary Classics of the United States : Distributed by Penguin Books, ©1998.
Series:Library of America ; 104-105.
Subjects:
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Press coverage > United States.
Journalism > United States > History > 20th century.
Love stories.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. American journalism, 1959-1969
  • pt. 2. American journalism, 1969-1975.
  • pt. 1. American journalism, 1959-1969--Death at intermission time / Time
  • Diem defeats his own best troops / Stanley Karnow
  • Paddy War / Malcolm W. Browne
  • A "Very real war" in Vietnam- and the deep U.S. commitment / Homer Bigart
  • "The enemy had left a display for us" / Malcolm W. Browne
  • Master of the red jab / Bernard B. Fall
  • Vietnam victory remote despite U.S. aid to Diem / Homer Bigart
  • Vietnamese ignored U.S. battle order / Neil Sheehan
  • "An endless, relentless war" / David Halberstam
  • He was sitting in the center of a column of flame / Malcolm W. Browne
  • The Diem government / Marguerite Higgins
  • In the Gia Long Palace / Joseph Alsop
  • The fall of the house of Ngo Dinh / Stanley Karnow
  • They can a war if someone shows them how / David Halberstam
  • We are losing, morale is bad ... if they'd give us good planes / U.S. News and World Report
  • Christmas eve bomb in Spain / Beverly Deepe
  • Befuddled in Asia / Russell Baker
  • Marines get flowers for a toughmissionn / John Flynn
  • Protest, learning, heckling / Roger Rapoport
  • After theWashingtonn teach-in / Meg Greenfield
  • Eight dedicated men marked for death / Don Moser
  • Vietnam blitz: a report on the impersonal war / Bernard B. Fall
  • A big "dirty little war" / William Tuohy
  • The electric kool-aid acid test / Tom Wolfe
  • Death in the Ia Drang Valley / Specialist 4/ C Jack P. Smith
  • A Viet Cong / Susan Sheehan
  • Two Hilltops in marines life / McCandlish Phillips
  • Teach-in on Vietnam by .. the President, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of and the Under Secretary of State / Henry F. Graff
  • No room in the cemetery / Afro-American
  • Reconnaissance / Ward S. Just
  • Only you can prevent forests / Frank Harvey
  • Suffer the little children / Martha Gellhorn
  • Not a dove, but no longer a hawk / Neil Sheehan
  • The long fear / Frances Fitzgerald
  • U.S. raids better 2 towns / Harrison E. Salisbury
  • Unrepentant, unyielding : An interview with Viet Cong prisoners / Bernard B. Fall
  • U.S. marines seize 3d hill in Vietnam after 12 day push / Jonathan Randal
  • Saigon and other syndromes / Ward S. Just
  • The Vietcong cadre of terror / Don Moser
  • The military half: An accout of destruction in Quang Ngai and Quang Tin / Johnathan Schell
  • The war just doesn't hold up / Richard Harwood
  • A day in the life / Michael Mailer
  • Hill 875 / Peter Arnett
  • The truest sport: jousting with Sam and Charlie / Tom Wolfe
  • U.S. aide in Embassy Villa kills guerilla with pistol / Charles Mohr
  • Tet! / Don Oberdorfer
  • A third of mytho destroyed in delta fighting / Lee Lescaze
  • Life in the V ring / John T. Wheeler
  • "We are mired in stalemate ..." / Walter Cronkite
  • "An ending of his own" / Don Oberdorfer
  • Hanoi- March 1968 / Mary McCarthy
  • The U.S. negro in Vietnam / Thomas A. Johnson
  • The siege of Chicago / Norman Mailer
  • A visit to Chicago: blood, sweat, and tears / Steve Lerner
  • The selling of the president 1968 / Joe McGinniss
  • A small contribution / Kevin Buckley
  • "We lived for a time like dogs" / Zalin Grant
  • Our town: the war comes home to Beallsville, Ohio / Jeffrey Blankfort--Hamburger Hill: the army's rationale / David Hoffman
  • Black power in Viet Nam / Wallace Terry
  • Casualties of War / Daniel Lang.
  • pt. 2. American journalism, 1969-1975
  • A long leisurely drive through Meking Delta tells much of war / Peter R. Kann
  • The My Lai massacre / Seymour M. Hersh
  • The moratorium / Francine Du Plessix Gray
  • Massacre at Takeo / T.D. Allman
  • I think we have a very unhappy colleague on leave tonight / Mike Kinsely
  • Dawn at memorial: Nixon, youths talk / Don Oberdorfer
  • Hard-hats : the rampaging patriots / Fred J. Cook
  • The American class system / Steward Alsop
  • Vietnamese alienate Cambodians in fight against mutual enemy / Peter R. Kann
  • Scraps of paper from Vietnam / James Sterba
  • You can't just hand out orders / John Saar
  • Who was Lyndon Baines Johnson? / Doris Kearns
  • A frantic night on the edge of Laos / John Saar
  • At border crossing into Laos, the litter of troops and history / Gloria Emerson
  • The Meo of Laos / John E. Woodruff
  • Copters return from Laos / Gloria Emerson
  • The homecoming of Chris Mead / Karl Fleming
  • Who wants to the last American killed in Vietnam / Donald Kirk
  • Portrait of an aging despot / Tom Buckely
  • We are all Bui Doi / Gloria Emerson
  • Don't sell your soul / Zalin Grant
  • We have always survived / Robert Shaplen
  • Report from the inferno / John Saar
  • The South Vietnamese retreat / Sydney H. Schanberg
  • A record of sheer endurance / Rudolph Rauch
  • The South Vietnamese army / Peter Braestrup
  • Letter from Hanoi / Joesph Kraft
  • Fear and loathing on the campaign trail' 72 / Hunter S. Thomson
  • The Saigon follies or trying to head them off at credibility gap / Sydeny H. Schanberg
  • Who was this enemy? / Fox Butterfield
  • Vietnam peace pacts signed; America's longest war halts / Flora Lewis
  • War lingers in hamlets as cease-fire hour passes / Arnold R. Isaacs
  • A night with the Vietcong / H.D.S. Greenway
  • How the POW's fought back / John S. McCain III
  • Last GIs leave South Vietnam / H.D.S. Greenway
  • Bomb error leaves havoc in Neak Luong / Sydney H. Schanberg
  • Scars of delta savagery / Phillip A. McCombs
  • Viet vets: A sad reminder / William Greider
  • I watched them saw him days / Donald Kirk
  • In a besidged Cambodian city / Sydney H. Schanberg
  • A highlands mother escapes but pays a terrible toll / Berbard Weinraub
  • A flight into hell / Paul Vogle
  • For those who flee, life is hell on earth / Le Kim Dinh
  • The battle of Xuan Loc / Philip Caputo
  • The fall of Phnom Penh / Sydney H. Schanberg
  • Running again- the last retreat / Philip Caputo
  • We clawed for our lives / Keyes Beech
  • Diary of S. Viet's last hours / Bob Tamarkin
  • Communists enter Saigon / George Esper
  • U.S. Embassy looted / Peter Arnett
  • Tenderness, hatred and grief mark Siagon's last days / Malcolm W. Browne
  • Dispatches / Michael Herr.

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