FitzGerald’s Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam, (1972), shaped the ways Americans understood the last years of the war in Vietnam. Her work mixes the keen observations of a journalist with the measured knowledge of a historian. All rights reserved.The first annual Tony Horwitz Prize honoring distinguished work in American history of wide appeal and enduring public significance is awarded to Frances FitzGerald. Book review: Joseph Brant and His World “Brant was fully a Mohawk…” by James Paxton click hereīuy my poetry books, search Amazon for “Richard Carl Subber” Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2020 All rights reserved. Some of them are the names of my friends.īook review. There are more than 58,000 names on the walls of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. South Vietnam was the wrong place to try to “contain Communism,” no matter what that might mean. The American commitment to “containing Communism” was prominent, and, I believe, mostly sincere, albeit tragically uninformed. Be prepared to acknowledge that much of what you previously believed-and thought you knew-was wrong. You should read Fire in the Lake to get the whole story as it was knowable in 1972. She makes it easier to understand why the American war effort was doomed from its earliest phase. policies and actions and ignorance in Southeast Asia. The American war in Vietnam was far from over in 1972 when FitzGerald wrote this densely researched journalistic review of U.
I feel confident in guessing there wasn’t enough. I don’t know how much of an audience there was for Fire in the Lake in 1972. American leadership never was what we thought it was…īook review: Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnamīy Frances FitzGerald (b1940), a Pulitzer Prize winnerīoston: An Atlantic Monthly Press Book, Little Brown and Company, 1972
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