Bates, Milton J. and Others (editors)

New York. 1998. Library Of America. 1st Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket. 1883011590. 857 pages. hardcover. . keywords: Vietnam Journalism History. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Published twenty-five years after the last American troops withdrew from Vietnam, this unique two-volume anthology evokes a dramatic, painful, and controversial period in American history and journalism. 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. 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. Writers who observed the turmoil in the United States are included as well: Francine du Plessix 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. This volume contains a detailed chronology of the war, historical maps, biographical profiles of the journalists, explanatory notes, a glossary of military terms, and an index. Also included are 32 pages of photographs of the correspondents, many from private collections and never seen before. inventory #26207 ISBN: 1883011590.