51 Specialized Topics: The Press (Recommended Reading List on the Viet Nam War)
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This article is from the Vietnam FAQ, by Brian Ross, John R. Tegtmeier, Edwin E. Moise, Frank Vaughan, John Tegtmeier with numerous contributions by others.
51 Specialized Topics: The Press (Recommended Reading List on the Viet Nam War)
Arnett, Peter. Live from the Battlefield : From Vietnam to
Baghdad, 35 Years in the World's War Zones. New York: Simon &
Schuster, 1994; Touchstone, 1995.
Braestrup, Peter. Big Story : How the American Press and
Television Reported and Interpreted the Crisis of Tet 1968 in
Vietnam and Washington. Abridged edition. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1983; reprint, Novato, CA: Presideo Press, 1994.
Hallin, Daniel C. "The Uncensored War" : The Media and
Vietnam. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986; Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1989.
*CORE* A major and systematic scholarly analysis
of coverage of the war by major news organizations, in particular the
New York Times (1961-65) and the television networks (1965-73), and
its impact on the social construction of the war.
Herr, Michael. Dispatches. New York: Knopf, 1977; Vintage
International, 1991.
Prochnau, William W. Once Upon a Distant War. New York:
Times Books, 1995.
A detailed look at the press in the early days of
the war - Sheehan, Halberstam, Browne, Arnett, etc.
Small, Melvin. Covering Dissent : The Media and the
Anti-Vietnam War Movement. Perspectives in the Sixties. New Brunswick,
NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1994.
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