Good generation. He entered the Foreign Service immediately on graduation from yale. His education was essentially in the humanities, not International Relations theory. He felt the most viable course he took in college was in economic geography, which is not hot anymore come either in colleges or high schools. He was required to yield major to take a course in dealing with the english civil service. No one pays attention in which english constitutional history. And when he entered the Foreign Service, whose first assignment was in hong kong in 1960. Hong kong in 1960 is hard to remember this was the place that existed in almost total isolation from china. There were millions of refugees in hong kong, but no american could go to china. And there is no trade. It was a listening post, but not a very informative one. But the experience that he had their used to be typical of the experience that Foreign Service officers had. He was assigned to interview these applicants. He learned that th
Them written by veterans of the vietnam war. National book award winners, Pulitzer Prize winners, classic works of nonfiction including probably a dozen or 15 or 20 war memoirs that stand with the best of the genre. As well as history analysis and so on. I just have a small list. Ive left off many but the ones that i thought of immediately that should be on anybodys book shelf who reads whos interested in the vietnam war as far as nonfiction Neil Sheehans book, a bright shining light. Philip caputo, david halverstans the best and the brightest, wallace terrys book blood, robert masons book chicken hawk, one of the first and best helicopter pilots memoirs. Lou puller, he was from virginia. That book won the Pulitzer Prize for autobiography. You know, he was chesty pullers son, he graduated from college in 1967 and what did he do . Yeah. He went to the marines. Can you imagine . And theres a great probably the best memoir by a woman is linda van zanters home before morning. She was a nur
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