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Winners and Losers
Gloria Emerson
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Description for Winners and Losers
Paperback. The National Book Award-winning classic on the Vietnam War, reissued for the war's fiftieth anniversary. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMV; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; HBJF; HBLW3; HBWS2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 141 x 37. Weight in Grams: 494.
Based on interviews with both Americans and Vietnamese, Winners and Losers is Gloria Emerson’s powerful portrait of the Vietnam War. From soldiers on the battlefield to protesters on the home front, Emerson chronicles the war’s impact on ordinary lives with characteristic insight and brilliance. Today, as we approach the fiftieth anniversary of the Gulf of Tonkin incident, much of the physical and emotional damage from that conflict—the empty political rhetoric, the mounting casualties, and the troubled homecomings of shell-shocked soldiers—is once again part of the American experience. Winners and Losers remains a potent reminder of the danger of blindly applied ... Read more
Based on interviews with both Americans and Vietnamese, Winners and Losers is Gloria Emerson’s powerful portrait of the Vietnam War. From soldiers on the battlefield to protesters on the home front, Emerson chronicles the war’s impact on ordinary lives with characteristic insight and brilliance. Today, as we approach the fiftieth anniversary of the Gulf of Tonkin incident, much of the physical and emotional damage from that conflict—the empty political rhetoric, the mounting casualties, and the troubled homecomings of shell-shocked soldiers—is once again part of the American experience. Winners and Losers remains a potent reminder of the danger of blindly applied ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
Number of Pages
608
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393349337
SKU
V9780393349337
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99-1
About Gloria Emerson
Gloria Emerson (1929–2004) covered Vietnam as a foreign correspondent for the New York Times from 1965 to 1972, for which she won the George Polk Award. Winners and Losers won the National Book Award in 1978.
Reviews for Winners and Losers
"Sensitive, moral, compelling . . . a book of genuine greatness and largeness of spirit."
Chicago Tribune "Magnificent. . . . [Emerson’s] interviews are superb."
Newsweek "A great book . . . alternately shrewd, angry, funny, knowing."
David Halberstam
Chicago Tribune "Magnificent. . . . [Emerson’s] interviews are superb."
Newsweek "A great book . . . alternately shrewd, angry, funny, knowing."
David Halberstam