Death zones and darling spies : seven years of Vietnam War reporting / Beverly Deepe Keever.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keever, Beverly Deepe.

Series:

Studies in war, society, and the military.

Studies in war, society, and the military

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Press coverage--United States.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Journalists.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American.

Women war correspondents--Vietnam.

Women war correspondents.

Keever, Beverly Deepe--Travel--Vietnam.

Keever, Beverly Deepe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (360 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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Contents:

Introduction : from midwest dustbowl to mystical Vietnam

The people's war

Rice-roots reporting

"The world's first helicopter war"

The rise and fall of frontier forts

Two ill-fated presidents

"The United States will lose Southeast Asia"

Americanizing the war

Her story as history too

"Destroy the town to save it"

From Khe Sanh to the "virtual equivalent of treason"

Two "darling spies" and I

Appendix 1 : author's Vietnam articles in U.S. publications

Appendix 2 : author's 1966 New York herald tribune series (inserted into the Congressional record by Senator Mike Mansfield).

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781496210463

1496210468

9780803246065

0803246064

OCLC:

830162300