![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Well, let me just tell you this anecdote. You were involved with the 1983 PBS series, which was based upon the book, and you also covered the war from 1959 to its conclusion. The book Vietnam?one of the first?the first big histories of Vietnam, which came out in 1983. Let me just state here that you are the author of Vietnam? But, you know, I can tell you an anecdote. But very often, journalists are closer to the realities than the academics are, although I’m not blaming?there are very good academics. So it’s history, but it’s not academic history?it’s journalistic history, if you want. So very often?I mean I’ve written?I haven’t written a lot of books I’ve written three or four or five books, and using a lot of the material that I gathered as I was a reporter. I’m a former reporter, foreign correspondent and later, a historian, because reporters can’t play shortstop all their lives, so eventually, if they got any sense, they begin to use the material that they gathered as reporters in order to write books. ![]()
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