Title

Reporting Vietnam.

Description

Volume 1 includes interviews and reportage by Neil Sheehan, David Halberstam, Russell Baker, Meg Greenfield, Martha Gellhorn, Ward Just, Tom Wolfe, Mary McCarthy, Seymour Hersh, Francine du Plessix and others.Volume 2 includes reportage by Seymour Hersh, Francine du Plessix Gray, John Saar, Gloria Emerson, Sydney Schanberg, Flora Lewis, Peter Arnett, and others.

Identifier

768848

1883011582

Source

Brian Lamb Booknotes Collection

Gift of Brian Lamb, 2011.

Catalog record

Language

eng

Date

1998

Program air date: January 31, 1999

Publisher

Literary Classics of the United States

George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections & Archives

Text

Transcription of Annotations
Part One: On back endpaper: Neil Sheehan p 298 not a Dove but no longer a Hawk. Lamb marks two entries on the Contents pages--Neil Sheehan's and Frances Fitzgerald's. Notes/Underlinings: First advisers killed in South Vietnam, aid 1 Bil/5 years, "NHV corruption," Diem liable to fall, UC commitment, AP Bac, suicides 1963, description of Col. John Vann, guerrilla war, Harkins, Jerry Shank's letters home/war experience, thoughts on McNamara, Sheehan on the War in 1966. Frances Fitzgerald on the War/politics, capture of village and loot from underground tunnels, POWs, viability of war from North Vietnamese's perspective, abuse of Vietnamese by American soldiers, Lamb notes # of Americans in Vietnam. Part Two: Lamb marks two entries on the Contents pages--both by Peter R. Kann. Notes/Underlinings: View of Vietnam. US aid, conflicting interpretations, "the mother rat," details on Kent State shooting, Harvard Profs. meeting with Henry Kissinger about invasion of Cambodia, Michael Walzer, Seymour Martin Lipset, Richard Neustadt, etc. ARVN in Cambodia. Doris Kearns--Johnson and Vietnam, Johnson and the professors, McNamara. "Ho's will," "baby." Lamb underscores information in the Biographical notes on Peter R. Kann, Doris Kearns, Michael Kinsley, James A. Michener. Notes on back free endpaper: 200 pages Michael Hen's Dispatcher. p 375 Joe Kraft in Hanoi, New Yorker Ho's will. 536--Keyes Beech May 1, 1975 the door closed on the most humiliating chapter in American History.

Subject

"Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Press coverage--United States."

"Journalism--United States--History--20th century."

Relation

Original Booknotes interview

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