This volume recounts Ron Steinman's tenure as head of the NBC News Bureau in Saigon from April 1966 until July 1968. This was a time during the Vietnam conflict that included the major American buildup and the Tet Offensive of 1968 and saw much of America turn from support for the war to opposition. This book is a behind-the-scenes look at how the Vietnam conflict influenced young journalists, and how their coverage of the war influenced the American public. It looks at how television journalists learned to report war in a ...
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This volume recounts Ron Steinman's tenure as head of the NBC News Bureau in Saigon from April 1966 until July 1968. This was a time during the Vietnam conflict that included the major American buildup and the Tet Offensive of 1968 and saw much of America turn from support for the war to opposition. This book is a behind-the-scenes look at how the Vietnam conflict influenced young journalists, and how their coverage of the war influenced the American public. It looks at how television journalists learned to report war in a distinctly new way, through the eye of a camera on the front lines, in the countryside, in cities, towns, and villages. The experience of living-room war was new, and its effects are still being felt today. The author also reveals glimpses into his personal life, his courtship of Josephine Tu Ngoc Suong, a young Vietnamese woman who was seriously wounded and near death in 1967. After her recovery she and Steinman were married and had three children together. And he tells the story of his brother-in-law, a prisoner in a Communist re-education camp after the war, to whom he tried to smuggle money and medicine during a visit in 1985.
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Good. Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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Fine in fine jacket. Some b/w illustrations. 262 pages. 8vo, black cloth with gilt lettering, d.w. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, (2002). First edition. Dust wrapper has very slight signs of wear. Fine copy in a fine dust wrapper. Inscription by the author on title page.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by author. SIGNED INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR-LOOKS SUPER-1ST ED 2ND PRINTING-NO FLAWS NOTED-SHIPS TRACKED NEXT DAY-CRDNZA3LFT. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade.
