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Vietnam, Now: A Reporter Returns
David Lamb
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Description for Vietnam, Now: A Reporter Returns
Paperback. Now in paperback: the extraordinary portrait of post-war Vietnam told by a journalist who covered the war and returned thirty years later to cover the peace Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; HBJF; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 402.
When he left war-ravaged Vietnam some thirty years ago, journalist David Lamb averred "I didn't care if I ever saw the wretched country again." But in 1997, he found himself living in Hanoi, in charge of the Los Angeles Times's first peacetime bureau and in the midst of a country on the move, as it progresses toward a free-market economy and divorces itself from the restrictive, isolationist policies established at the end of the war. This was a new country in Vietnam, Now , David Lamb brings it- and us- forward from its dark, distant past. From ... Read more
When he left war-ravaged Vietnam some thirty years ago, journalist David Lamb averred "I didn't care if I ever saw the wretched country again." But in 1997, he found himself living in Hanoi, in charge of the Los Angeles Times's first peacetime bureau and in the midst of a country on the move, as it progresses toward a free-market economy and divorces itself from the restrictive, isolationist policies established at the end of the war. This was a new country in Vietnam, Now , David Lamb brings it- and us- forward from its dark, distant past. From ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781586481834
SKU
V9781586481834
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Ref
99-1
About David Lamb
David Lamb is a distinguished Los Angeles Times journalist and five-time author. He has been Nieman fellow, a Pew Fellow, and a writer-in-residence at the University of Southern California's School of Journalism.
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