Fire in the Lake
The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
Published on 17. July 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
512 pages
978-0-316-15919-7 (ISBN)
Description
This landmark work, based on Frances FitzGerald's own research and travels, takes us inside Vietnam -- into the traditional, ancestor-worshiping villages and the corrupt crowded cities, into the conflicts between Communists and anti-Communists, Catholics and Buddhists, generals and monks -- and reveals the country as seen through Vietnamese eyes. With a clarity and authority unrivaled by any book before it or since, "Fire in the Lake" shows how America utterly and tragically misinterpreted the realities of Vietnam.
-- In the 30 years since its initial publication, "Fire in the Lake" has achieved the status of a classic.
-- An essential text for students of Asian-American relations.
-- In the 30 years since its initial publication, "Fire in the Lake" has achieved the status of a classic.
-- An essential text for students of Asian-American relations.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 208 mm
Width: 142 mm
Thickness: 38 mm
Weight
507 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-316-15919-7 (9780316159197)
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Frances FitzGerald is the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Bancroft Prize, and a prize from the National Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is the author of The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America; Fire in the Lake: the Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam; America Revised: History School Books in the Twentieth Century; Cities on a Hill: A Journey through Contemporary American Cultures; Way Out in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War; and Vietnam: Spirits of the Earth. She has written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper's, The New York Review of Books, The Nation, Rolling Stone, and Esquire.