Death zones and darling spies: seven years of Vietnam War reporting

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).

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).