The Resource Death zones and darling spies : seven years of Vietnam War reporting, Beverly Deepe Keever
Death zones and darling spies : seven years of Vietnam War reporting, Beverly Deepe Keever
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The item Death zones and darling spies : seven years of Vietnam War reporting, Beverly Deepe Keever represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries.
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- Summary
- "In 1961, equipped with a master's degree from famed Columbia Journalism School and letters of introduction to Associated Press bureau chiefs in Asia, twenty-six-year-old Beverly Deepe set off on a trip around the world. Allotting just two weeks to South Vietnam, she was still there seven years later, having then earned the distinction of being the longest-serving American correspondent covering the Vietnam War and garnering a Pulitzer Prize nomination. In this book, Beverly Deepe Keever describes what it was like for a farm girl from Nebraska to find herself halfway around the world, trying to make sense of one of the nation's bloodiest and bitterest wars. She arrived in Saigon as Vietnam's war entered a new phase and American helicopter units and provincial advisers were unpacking. She tells of traveling from her Saigon apartment to jungles where Wild West-styled forts first dotted Vietnam's borders and where, seven years later, they fell like dominoes from communist-led attacks. In 1965, she braved elephant grass with American combat units armed with unparalleled technology to observe their valor-and their inability to distinguish friendly farmers from hide-and-seek guerrillas. Keever's trove of tissue-thin memos to editors, along with published and unpublished dispatches for New York and London media, provide the reader with you-are-there descriptions of Buddhist demonstrations and turning-point coups as well as phony ones. Two Vietnamese interpreters, self-described as "darling spies," helped her decode Vietnam's shadow world and subterranean war. These memoirs, at once personal and panoramic, chronicle the horrors of war and a rise and decline of American power and prestige."
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (360 pages).
- Contents
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- Introduction: from midwest dustbowl to mystical Vietnam
- The people's war
- Rice-roots reporting
- "The world's first helicopter war"
- The rise and fall of frontier forts
- Two ill-fated presidents
- "The United States will lose Southeast Asia"
- Americanizing the war
- Her story as history too
- "Destroy the town to save it"
- From Khe Sanh to the "virtual equivalent of treason"
- Two "darling spies" and I
- Appendix 1: author's Vietnam articles in U.S. publications
- Appendix 2: author's 1966 New York herald tribune series (inserted into the Congressional record by Senator Mike Mansfield)
- Isbn
- 9780803246065
- Label
- Death zones and darling spies : seven years of Vietnam War reporting
- Title
- Death zones and darling spies
- Title remainder
- seven years of Vietnam War reporting
- Statement of responsibility
- Beverly Deepe Keever
- Subject
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- 1961-1975
- Electronic books
- Electronic books
- Electronic books
- HISTORY -- Military | Vietnam War
- Journalists
- Keever, Beverly Deepe
- Keever, Beverly Deepe -- Travel -- Vietnam
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism
- Personal narratives -- American
- Press coverage
- Travel
- United States
- Vietnam
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Journalists
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Personal narratives, American
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Press coverage -- United States
- Women war correspondents
- Women war correspondents -- Vietnam
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "In 1961, equipped with a master's degree from famed Columbia Journalism School and letters of introduction to Associated Press bureau chiefs in Asia, twenty-six-year-old Beverly Deepe set off on a trip around the world. Allotting just two weeks to South Vietnam, she was still there seven years later, having then earned the distinction of being the longest-serving American correspondent covering the Vietnam War and garnering a Pulitzer Prize nomination. In this book, Beverly Deepe Keever describes what it was like for a farm girl from Nebraska to find herself halfway around the world, trying to make sense of one of the nation's bloodiest and bitterest wars. She arrived in Saigon as Vietnam's war entered a new phase and American helicopter units and provincial advisers were unpacking. She tells of traveling from her Saigon apartment to jungles where Wild West-styled forts first dotted Vietnam's borders and where, seven years later, they fell like dominoes from communist-led attacks. In 1965, she braved elephant grass with American combat units armed with unparalleled technology to observe their valor-and their inability to distinguish friendly farmers from hide-and-seek guerrillas. Keever's trove of tissue-thin memos to editors, along with published and unpublished dispatches for New York and London media, provide the reader with you-are-there descriptions of Buddhist demonstrations and turning-point coups as well as phony ones. Two Vietnamese interpreters, self-described as "darling spies," helped her decode Vietnam's shadow world and subterranean war. These memoirs, at once personal and panoramic, chronicle the horrors of war and a rise and decline of American power and prestige."
- Cataloging source
- EBLCP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Keever, Beverly Deepe
- Dewey number
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- 070.4/499597043
- 070.4499597043
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- DS559.46
- LC item number
- .K44 2013eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Studies in war, society, and the military
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Keever, Beverly Deepe
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975
- Women war correspondents
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975
- Keever, Beverly Deepe
- Keever, Beverly Deepe
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
- HISTORY
- Journalists
- Press coverage
- Travel
- Women war correspondents
- United States
- Vietnam
- Label
- Death zones and darling spies : seven years of Vietnam War reporting, Beverly Deepe Keever
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-323) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: from midwest dustbowl to mystical Vietnam -- The people's war -- Rice-roots reporting -- "The world's first helicopter war" -- The rise and fall of frontier forts -- Two ill-fated presidents -- "The United States will lose Southeast Asia" -- Americanizing the war -- Her story as history too -- "Destroy the town to save it" -- From Khe Sanh to the "virtual equivalent of treason" -- Two "darling spies" and I -- Appendix 1: author's Vietnam articles in U.S. publications -- Appendix 2: author's 1966 New York herald tribune series (inserted into the Congressional record by Senator Mike Mansfield)
- Control code
- 830162300
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (360 pages).
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780803246065
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
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- 459074
- d3f9e743-e851-4ea4-941f-e24e60c9c4c6
- 22573/ctt1ddpz8d
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)830162300
- Label
- Death zones and darling spies : seven years of Vietnam War reporting, Beverly Deepe Keever
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-323) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: from midwest dustbowl to mystical Vietnam -- The people's war -- Rice-roots reporting -- "The world's first helicopter war" -- The rise and fall of frontier forts -- Two ill-fated presidents -- "The United States will lose Southeast Asia" -- Americanizing the war -- Her story as history too -- "Destroy the town to save it" -- From Khe Sanh to the "virtual equivalent of treason" -- Two "darling spies" and I -- Appendix 1: author's Vietnam articles in U.S. publications -- Appendix 2: author's 1966 New York herald tribune series (inserted into the Congressional record by Senator Mike Mansfield)
- Control code
- 830162300
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (360 pages).
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780803246065
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
-
- 459074
- d3f9e743-e851-4ea4-941f-e24e60c9c4c6
- 22573/ctt1ddpz8d
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)830162300
Subject
- 1961-1975
- Electronic books
- Electronic books
- Electronic books
- HISTORY -- Military | Vietnam War
- Journalists
- Keever, Beverly Deepe
- Keever, Beverly Deepe -- Travel -- Vietnam
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism
- Personal narratives -- American
- Press coverage
- Travel
- United States
- Vietnam
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Journalists
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Personal narratives, American
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Press coverage -- United States
- Women war correspondents
- Women war correspondents -- Vietnam
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