Portions of this book appeared originally in The New Yorker, in slightly different form.Įxcerpts from testimony to the Joint Economic Committee of Congress, January 1971, reprinted with permission of the Boston Globe. The Back Bay Books name and logo are trademarks of Hachette Book Group USA, Inc. Visit our website at Originally published in hardcover by Little, Brown and Company, August 1972īack Bay Books is an imprint of Little, Brown and Company. COPYRIGHT ACT OF 1976, NO PART OF THIS PUBLICATION MAY BE REPRODUCED, DISTRIBUTED, OR TRANSMITTED IN ANY FORM OR BY ANY MEANS, OR STORED IN A DATABASE OR RETRIEVAL SYSTEM, WITHOUT THE PRIOR WRITTEN PERMISSION OF THE PUBLISHER. Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold WarĪLL RIGHTS RESERVED. History Schoolbooks in the Twentieth CenturyĪ Journey Through Contemporary American Cultures The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam 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.
Originally published in 1972, Fire in the Lake was the first history of Vietnam written by an American and won the Pulitzer Prize, the Bancroft Prize, and the National Book Award. 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. 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)
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