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Hog’s Exit: Jerry Daniels, the Hmong and the CIA
Gayle L. Morrison
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Description for Hog’s Exit: Jerry Daniels, the Hmong and the CIA
Paperback. A portrait of the rowdy life and mysterious death of a former CIA officer, as told by those who knew him Series: Modern Southeast Asia. Num Pages: 512 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMV; 1KBB; BG; HBWS2; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 29. Weight in Grams: 721.
Hog’s Exit explores the mysterious death in 1982 of Jerry “Hog” Daniels, a former CIA case officer to legendary Hmong leader General Vang Pao during the U.S.’s “secret war” in Laos. Drawing on first-person reminiscences of Daniels’s colorful life, Morrison also captures the drama and beauty of the Hmong spirit rituals, as well as the lamentations and suspicions that pervade this unusual funeral ceremony. Americans and Hmong, ranchers and refugees, State Department officials and smokejumpers, share their memories about Daniels: growing up; hunting and fishing in Montana; cheating death in Laos; and carousing in the bars and brothels of Thailand. ... Read more
Hog’s Exit explores the mysterious death in 1982 of Jerry “Hog” Daniels, a former CIA case officer to legendary Hmong leader General Vang Pao during the U.S.’s “secret war” in Laos. Drawing on first-person reminiscences of Daniels’s colorful life, Morrison also captures the drama and beauty of the Hmong spirit rituals, as well as the lamentations and suspicions that pervade this unusual funeral ceremony. Americans and Hmong, ranchers and refugees, State Department officials and smokejumpers, share their memories about Daniels: growing up; hunting and fishing in Montana; cheating death in Laos; and carousing in the bars and brothels of Thailand. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Texas Tech Press,U.S.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
Modern Southeast Asia
Condition
New
Weight
720g
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
Texas, United States
ISBN
9780896727922
SKU
V9780896727922
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About Gayle L. Morrison
Gayle L. Morrison has worked with the Hmong community since 1977 in education, refugee services, private enterprise, and as an oral historian, researcher and writer. The author of Sky Is Falling: An Oral History of the CIA’s Evacuation of the Hmong from Laos (1999), she lives in Santa Ana, California, and Missoula, Montana.
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