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So for me there is a studied ambivalence in all my attempts to come to grips with the war. And in that respect I feel kinship with the Frances FitzGerald and admiration for her attempt to bridge the gap between personal experience and historical resolution in Fire in the Lake...
The country was chaotic. Frances FitzGerald was in Saigon the same time that I was. The city was all confusion. Americans were every where and stuck together, meeting only other Americans and those Vietnamese who, for one reason or another, were compelled to deal with our self-sufficient and insulated...
Sifting and evaluating all the material will be an eye-wrenching task. Says Frances O'Brien, administrative assistant to Peter Rodino, Judiciary Committee chairman: "We have to take everything that has been given to us, break it down into areas, decide what we have, what it means, whether more...
These days he is deep in the writing of his memoirs, due to be published this fall. Strewn about his living-room office are piles of books bearing on Viet Nam: Frances FitzGerald's Fire in the Lake, David Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest, Walt Rostow...
In Fire in the Lake, the best-known book about Vietnam, Frances FitzGerald 62 argued that the Vietnamese peasants had a particular cast of mind, a conception of the world, which conditioned their response to certain events in the 1940's and caused them to join the Viet Minh resistance...