Death zones and darling spies
Subtitle: seven years of Vietnam War reporting
By: Beverly Deepe Keever
Series: Studies in war, society, and the military; Studies in war, society, and the military
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9780803222618
Subjects: Women war correspondents; American Personal narratives; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Journalists; Press coverage; Travel
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-323) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: from midwest dustbowl to mystical Vietnam; title: The people's war; title: Rice-roots reporting; title: "The world's first helicopter war"; title: The rise and fall of frontier forts; title: Two ill-fated presidents; title: "The United States will lose Southeast Asia"; title: Americanizing the war; title: Her story as history too; title: "Destroy the town to save it"; title: From Khe Sanh to the "virtual equivalent of treason"; title: Two "darling spies" and I; title: Appendix 1: author's Vietnam articles in U.S. publications; title: Appendix 2: author's 1966 New York herald tribune series (inserted into the Congressional record by Senator Mike Mansfield).