Fire in the Lake, Frances FitzGerald
Fire in the Lake, Frances FitzGerald
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Fire in the Lake
The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam

Author: Frances FitzGerald

Narrator: Jeff Bottoms

Unabridged: 22 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/06/2018

Synopsis

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

About Frances FitzGerald

Frances FitzGerald is the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Bancroft Prize, and a prize from the National Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is the author of The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America; Fire in the Lake: the Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam; America Revised: History School Books in the Twentieth Century; Cities on a Hill: A Journey through Contemporary American Cultures; Way Out in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War; and Vietnam: Spirits of the Earth. She has written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s, The New York Review of Books, The Nation, Rolling Stone, and Esquire.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Michael on November 20, 2019

Outstanding analysis of the Vietnamese people and the American War from Frances FitzGerald written in 1972, so 3 years before the fall of Saigon. A triple crown winner (Bancroft Prize, National Book Award and Pulitzer), it is an impressive piece of scholarship and analysis. As stated in the title, t......more

Goodreads review by Michael on July 28, 2013

One day in the late 1970s, while attending the University of North Dakota, I was told by an older student who had spent his youth and his innocence as an American GI "busting his hump" across South Vietnam, that this was the best book ever written about America's involvement in Southeast Asia. Here......more

Goodreads review by David on June 28, 2015

Nam’s Bad Habit I first became aware of Fire in the Lake shortly after it received the 1973 Pulitzer Prize. Knowing that it was the definitive political/social/cultural history of modern Viet Nam I purchased it immediately. I then proceeded to carry it around with me, packing & un-packing it for the......more

Goodreads review by Paul on January 13, 2019

The “fire in the lake” symbol from classical China’s I Ching book of prophecy is part of the book’s 49th of 64 hexagrams, “Revolution,” and it features the following declaration: “Revolution. Not before the day of its completion will men have faith in it – sublime success! Determination in a righteo......more

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