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March 15, 2021
Pritzker Military Museum & Library and the Sullivan Museum and History Center present author talk by journalist Elizabeth Becker
A discussion of barrier-smashing women journalists who covered the Vietnam War, a presentation on Palestine’s theater and food, Admissions Office informational sessions and the Spring 2021 Norwich Record alumni magazine’s arrival highlight Norwich University’s schedule this week.
From noon to 1 p.m. Tuesday, the Pritzker Military Museum & Library and the Sullivan Museum and History Center will present a virtual discussion with journalist and author Elizabeth Becker on her new book, “You Don’t Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War,” which chronicles the work of Australian reporter Kate Webb, French photographer Catherine Leroy and American intellectual Frances FitzGerald.
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The Atlantic, George Packer reviews a new book about women reporters in Vietnam. Elizabeth Becker’s
You Don’t Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War covers the work of reporters Frances FitzGerald and Kate Webb, and photographer Catherine Leroy. Packer writes of FitzGerald, a twenty-something Radcliffe graduate and daughter of a CIA official: “Sheltered all her life, she was profoundly shocked by the suffering of the Vietnamese not just the death, injury, and displacement, but the loss of identity under the crushing weight of the Americans.”
Book excerpt: ‘You Don’t Belong Here’ Elizabeth Becker March 8 “You Don’t Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War” by Elizabeth Becker. (PublicAffairs)
Kate Webb, an Australian iconoclast, Catherine Leroy, a French daredevil photographer, and Frances FitzGerald, a blue-blood American intellectual, arrived in Vietnam with starkly different life experiences but one shared purpose: to report on the most consequential story of the decade. At a time when women were considered unfit to be foreign reporters, Frankie, Catherine, and Kate challenged the rules imposed on them by the military, ignored the belittlement of their male peers, and ultimately altered the craft of war reportage for generations.