The Press in the Vietnam Quagmire

Browne Malcolm W. , The New Face of War. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., Inc., 1968. By AP's Pulitzer Prize winner in Vietnam.

Cooper Chester L. , The Lost Crusade: America in Vietnam. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1970. A dispassionate historical reconstruction of the intervention in Indochina.

Fall Bernard B. , The Two Viet-Nams: A Political and Military Analysis, 2nd rev. ed. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, Inc., 1967. The most important study of the historical background and changing nature of the Vietnam War.

Halberstam David , The Making of a Quagmire. New York: Random House, 1965. By the New York Times' Pulitzer Prize winner in Vietnam.

Minor Dale , The Information War. New York: Hawthorn Books and Tower Publications, 1970. Perceptive analysis of the conflict between press and government in Vietnam.

New York Times, The Pentagon Papers. Chicago: Quadrangle Press, 1971. The secret history of the war in Vietnam.

O'Connor Richard , Pacific Destiny: An Informal History of the U. S. in the Far East. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1969. Thesis is that America moved from Atlantic to Pacific role through deep desires and motives of political, military and religious leaders at pivotal moments, from Commodore Perry's time to Vietnam.

Salisbury Harrison , Behind the Lines. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1967. New York Times editor's trip to Hanoi opened many eyes to conduct of Vietnamese war, almost won him a Pulitzer Prize.

Braestrup Peter , “Covering the Vietnam War.” Nieman Reports, XXIII (December 1969), 8. By a Vietnam correspondent for the New York Times and Washington Post.

Browne Malcolm W. , “Viet Nam Reporting: Three Years of Crisis,” Columbia Journalism Review, HI (Fall 1964), 4. By the AP correspondent in Saigon.

“Vietnam: What Lessons?” A symposium by Jules Witcover, Fred W. Friendly, Robert Shaplen, James McCartney, Edwin Diamond, Don Stillman, and Nathan Blumberg. Columbia Journalism Review, IX (Winter 1970–71). Media plusses and minuses; biggest minus, failure of Washington press corps to dig deeply into Gulf of Tonkin story in August 1964.