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Reporting Vietnam : American journalism, 1959-1975

Name: Reporting Vietnam : American journalism, 1959-1975
Brand: Library of America
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New York : Library of America, 2000.

853 p. ; 21 cm.

Originally pubished as 2 vol. set: 1998.

Death at intermission time: first U.S. advisers killed in South Vietnam, July 1959 / Time
Paddy war: guerrillla war in the Mekong Delta, December 1961 / Malcolm W. Brown
A "Very Real War" in Vietnam and the deep U.S. commitment: increasing American involvement, February 1962 / Homer Bigart
Master of the red jab: interview with Ho Chi Minh, July 1962 / Bernard B. Fall
"He was sitting in the center of a column of flame": suicide in Saigon, June 1963 / Malcolm W. Browne
The fall of the House of Ngo Dinh: overthrow of Diem, November 1963 / Stanley Karnow
"They can win a war if someone shows them how": profile of John Paul Vann, 1962-1964 / David Halberstam (Cont.)

(Contents continued) "We are losing, morale is bad...if they'd give us good planes...": a pilot's letters home, November 1963-March 1964 / U.S. News & World Report
After the Washington teach-in: controversy over the war intensifies, May 1965 / Meg Greenfield
Eight dedicated men marked for death: struggle for Loc Dien, Summer 1965 / Don Moser
Vietnam blintz: a report on the impersonal war: American buildup, September 1965 / Bernard F. Fall
Death in the Ia Drang Valley: "Men all around me were screaming", November 1965 / Specialist 4/C Jack P. Smith (Cont.)

(Contents continued) Teach-in on Vietnam by...the President, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense and the Under Secretary of State: the Administration defends its policies, February 1966 / Henry F. Graff
Reconnaissance: combat in the Central Highlands, June 1966 / Ward S. Just
Not a dove, but no longer a hawk: veteran reporter reasses the war, October 1966 / Neil Sheehan
"Unrepentent, unyielding": an interview with Viet Cong prisoners / Bernard F. Fall
U.S. Marines seize 3d hill in Vietnam after 12-day push: Khe Sanh Hill fights, May 1967 / Jonathan Randal
From The military half: an account of the destruction in Quang Ngai and Quang Tin Southern I Corps, August 1967 / Jonathan Schell (Cont.)

(Contents continued) A day in the life: a TV crew at Con Thien, September 1967 / Michael J. Arlen
From The armies of the night: the march on the Pentagon, October 1967 / Norman Mailer
Hill 875: Battle of Dak To, November 1967 / Peter Arnett
The truest sport: jousting with Sam and Charlie: air war over North Vietnam, December 1967 / Tom Wolfe
From Tet: the Viet Cong in Hue, January-February 1968 / Don Oberdorfer
From Dispatches: "Hell sucks": Hue, February 1968 / Michael Herr
Life in the V ring: Khe Sanh under siege, February 1968 / John T. Wheeler
Hanoi, March 1968: an American in North Vietnam, March-April 1968 / Mary McCarthy (Cont.)

(Contents continued) The U.S. Negro in Vietnam: Black servicemen and the war, 1968 / Thomas A. Johnson
A small contribution: firefight near Loc Ninh, October 1968 / Kevin Buckley
"We lived for a time like dogs": American POWs in a jungle camp, July 1968-January 1969 / Zalin Grant
Our town: the war comes home to Beallsville, Ohio: a small town mourns its dead, Spring 1969 / Jeffrey Blankfort
Black Power in Viet Nam: racial tensions in the military, September 1969 / Wallace Terry
A long, leisurely drive through Mekong Delta tells much of the war: pacification and Vietnamization, November 1969 / Peter R. Kann
The My Lai Massacre: an atrocity is uncovered, November 1969 / Seymour M. Hersh (Cont.)

(Contents continued) Massacre at Takeo: Cambodia, April 1970 / T.D. Allman
From Kent State: what happened and why, Kent, Ohio, May 1970 / James A. Michener
The American class system: fairness and the draft, 1970 / Stewart Alsop
You can't just hand out orders: an army of reluctant draftees, October 1970 / John Saar
From Who was Lyndon Baines Johnson? LBJ remembers Vietnam, 1970 / Doris Kearns
The Meo of Laos: the Hmong, February 1971 / John E. Woodruff
Copters return from Laos with the dead: "A small despairing scene", February 1971 / Gloria Emerson
Spirit of Saigon's army shaken in Laos: "They all became dust", March 1971 / Gloria Emerson (Cont.)

(Contents continued) The homecoming of Chris Mead: a veteran returns, March 1971 / Karl Fleming
Who wants to be the Last American Killed in Vietnam? Troop withdrawals and morale, August 1971 / Donald Kirk
Portrait of an aging despot: a visit with General Loan, 1971 / Tom Buckley
We have always survived: life in Saigon, Spring 1972 / Robert Shaplen
Report form the inferno: the North Vietnamese offensive, April 1972 / John Saar
The South Vietnamese Army: commanders and soldiers, July 1972 / Peter Braestrup
Letter from Hanoi: "We have been fighting eleven centuries", July 1972 / Joseph Kraft (Cont.)

(Contents continued) From Fear and loathing on the campaign trail '72 : protests at the Republican Convention, Miami, August 1972 / Hunter S. Thompson
Who was this enemy? Writings by North Vietnamese soldiers, 1973 / Fox Butterfield
War lingers in hamlets as cease-fire hour passes: after the cease-fire, January 1973 / Arnold R. Isaacs
How the POWs fought back: a Navy pilot in North Vietnam, October 1967-March 1973 / John S. McCain III
bomb error leaves havoc in Neak Luong: war in Cambodia, August 1973 / Sydney H. Schanberg
"I watched them saw him 3 days": a Khmer Rouge execution, July 1974 / Donald Kirk
A flight into Hell: the fall of Danang, March 1975 / Paul Vogle (Cont.)

(Contents continued) For those who flee, life is "Hell on Earth": refugees at Cam Ranh Bay, April 1975 / Le Kim Dinh
The fall of Phnom Penh: Cambodia, April-May 1975 / Sidney H. Schanberg
"Running again, the last retreat": refugees on "the street without joy", April 1975 / Philip Caputo
We clawed for our lives: a reporter flees Saigon, April 1975 / Keyes Beech
Diary of S. Viet's last hours: the evacuation ends, April 1975 / Bob Tamarkin
Tenderness, hatred and grief mark Saigon's last days: "Vietnam's black fate", May 1975 / Malcolm W. Browne.