Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1972. Fifth Printing [stated]. Hardcover. xivm 491, [5] pages. Endpaper maps. Occasional footnotes. Note on the Title. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Ex-library with some library markings. Rear pocket has been removed. DJ in plastic sleeve. taped to boards, with spine label partly removed. Some endpaper soiling and transfer marks from DJ tape. Edges soiled. Somewhat shaken. Frances FitzGerald (born October 21, 1940) is an American journalist and historian, who is primarily known for Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam (1972), an account of the Vietnam War. It was a bestseller that won the Pulitzer Prize, Bancroft Prize, and National Book Award. The book cautioned that the United States did not understand the history and culture of Vietnam and it warned about American involvement there. FitzGerald has continued to write about history and culture: her published books include America Revised, a highly critical review of history textbooks published in the United States; Cities on a Hill, an analysis of United States urban history compared to ideals; and Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War, a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Frances FitzGerald's landmark history of Vietnam and the Vietnam War, "A compassionate and penetrating account of the collision of two societies that remain untranslatable to one another." (New York Times Book Review) This magisterial work, based on Frances FitzGerald's many years of research and travels, takes us inside the history of Vietnam--the traditional, ancestor-worshiping villages, the conflicts between Communists and anti-Communists, Catholics and Buddhists, generals and monks, the disruption created by French colonialism, and America's ill-fated intervention--and reveals the country as seen through Vietnamese eyes. FIRE IN THE LAKE was the first history of Vietnam written by an American. With a clarity and insight unrivaled by any author before it or since, Frances FitzGerald illustrates how America utterly and tragically misinterpreted the realities of Vietnam. Condition: Good / Good.
Keywords: Vietnam, Indochina, International, Communism, Colonialism, Nguyen Van Thieu, Geneva Conference, Military Assistance Command, MACV, Guerrilla, Insurgency, Henry Cabot Lodge, Ho Chi Minh, Robert Komer, Nguyen Kao Ky, Ngo Dinh Diem, National Liberation
ISBN: 9780316284233
[Book #877]
Price: $42.50