Paris in the Fifties
New York: Times Books, 1999. Fifth Printing [stated]. Trade paperback. xiv, 352, [2] pages. Illus., index. Signed on the title page with sentiment by the author. Stanley Abram Karnow (1925 – 2013) was an American journalist and historian. He covered Asia from 1959 until 1974 for Time, Life, the Saturday Evening Post, the Washington Post, and NBC News. Present in Vietnam in July 1959 when the first Americans were killed, he reported on the Vietnam War in its entirety. It was during this time that he began to write Vietnam: A History. He was chief correspondent for the 13-hour Vietnam: A Television History series, which premiered on PBS in 1983; it won six Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award, a George Polk Award and a DuPont-Columbia Award. Karnow won the Pulitzer Prize for History for his book In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines. His other books include Mao and China: From Revolution to Revolution, which was nominated for a National Book Award; and Paris in the Fifties, a memoir of his own experiences of living in Paris. More