Palm of the u. S. Government. How much better to the American Press do because you must have read a lot of articles and watched a lot of newsclips. The u. S. Media did they build her up or demonize her or trivialize her or how did the u. S. Press do . Such a good question. The u. S. Press, i think if you read the accounts of helper sam and sheehan and Malcolm Brown who were there in the early days they tend to have really believed that the United States was doing the right thing by being in vietnam. This was a country that needed to be saved and they dominos were very real and they were really falling so they were really sort of patriotically behind the United States involvement in South Vietnam. But because of that madame nhu and her family were really a stumbling block. They were things up right and left in these reporters could see it and no one else was talking about it. So they were advocates for i dont want to say the replicas for regime change but they were advocates for getting
Booktv. Org. Next, from the recent Chicago Tribune printers row lit fest Monique Brinson demery talks about her biography of the former first lady of vietnam, madame nhu. This is about 45 minutes. Conve, eric banks. Mr. Banks. Thank you. Thank you very much. Welcome everybody. Its good to see you here this morning and its my pleasure to welcome. It is my pleasure to welcome Monique Brinson demery, the author of the amazing book booke dragon lady the mystery of vietnams madame nhu, which has recently been published by Public Affairs books. She holds a masters degree from harvard university, and when she made contact with madame nhu who was the unofficial first lady of the south east government in 2005, she was the first journalist to interview her in almost 20 years. She is based in chicago where happy to walking, monique. Thank you for having me. Thank you for coming today. Its such an interesting book. Im curious how you first became interested in writing a book about what i think a l
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One of the most iconic images of the 20th century is the photograph of a Vietnamese Buddhist monk burning himself to death on the streets of Saigon. The
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