{"product_id":"death-zones-and-darling-spies-9780803222618","title":"Death Zones and Darling Spies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eChosen for 2015 One Book One Nebraska\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eDeath Zones and Darling Spies\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In this powerfully plainspoken account, one of the leading female journalists of the Vietnam War relays her personal experience of the bloody conflict that divided America and changed the global political landscape. . . . Whether reporting from the ditches of the siege of Khe Sanh, detailing the harried arrival of U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, or fondly recalling her friendship with Pham Xuan An (one of the eponymous \"darling spies\"), Keever provides a ground-level look—by turns shrewd, lucid, and humane—of the war in Vietnam.\"—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Beverly Deepe Keever is a brilliant journalist, and her book is both a personal journal and a journalist's personal perspective on a long war.\"—\u003ci\u003eForeword Reviews \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Beverly Deepe Keever does an excellent job of recounting her unique Vietnam War experiences.\"—Marc Leepson, \u003ci\u003eBooks in Review II\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Keever is an excellent storyteller. . . . \u003ci\u003eDeath Zones \u0026amp; Darling Spies\u003c\/i\u003e adds a woman's view to the many retrospectives on the Vietnam War—a war covered and perpetrated mostly by men.\"—Carolyn Johnsen, \u003ci\u003eLincoln Journal Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Crisp and well-documented.\"—James Boylan, \u003ci\u003eColumbia Journalism Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Deepe Keever's book is an important and noteworthy addition to the literature on the Vietnam War and the media coverage of the conflict. Her firsthand experiences and reports,mixed with released government documents and historians' accounts, create a unique blend of historical analysis, which will benefit those familiar with the history of the Vietnam War as well as general audiences, including undergraduate surveys and courses.\"—Gerd Horten, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Journalism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Deepe gives a calm, fact-filled, eyewitness narrative of the war on the ground, as it affected ordinary families.\"—Michael S. Sweeney, \u003ci\u003eJournalism \u0026amp; Mass Communication Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I found this to be a compelling book and highly recommend it.\"—Becky Faber, \u003ci\u003eNebraska History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Few correspondents engaged in the protracted, ugly war in Laos and Vietnam were as diligent and perceptive as Beverly Deepe. As energetic and intrepid as her male counterparts, she slogged through dense jungles, flooded rice fields, and thick rubber plantations, filing dispatches that shed insights on that futile conflict. Her account of that experience is authoritative, credible, lucid, vivid, and above all readable.”—Stanley Karnow, author of \u003ci\u003eVietnam: A History\u003c\/i\u003e and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in history\u003cbr\u003e“Illuminating her role as the longest-serving U.S. correspondent covering the Vietnam War, Beverly Deepe Keever examines her dispatches and shows the disastrous consequences of failed policies. Her book presents the unadorned story of a young Nebraska woman who risked her life reporting on a war Americans should not have fought.”—Maurine Beasley, author of \u003ci\u003eWomen of the Washington Press: Politics, Prejudice, and Persistence\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: From Midwest Dustbowl to Mystical Vietnam\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. The People's War\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Rice-Roots Reporting\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. \"The World's First Helicopter War\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. The Rise and Fall of Frontier Forts\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. Two Ill-Fated Presidents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. \"The United States Will Lose Southeast Asia\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. Americanizing the War\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8. Her Story as History Too\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9. \"Destroy the Town to Save It\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10. From Khe Sanh to the \"Virtual Equivalent of Treason\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11. Two \"Darling Spies\" and I\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix 1: Author's Vietnam Articles in U.S. Publications\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix 2: Author's 1966 New York Herald Tribune Series (Inserted into the Congressional Record by Senator Mike Mansfield)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSource Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405244473687,"sku":"9780803222618","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780803222618.jpg?v=1730489258","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/death-zones-and-darling-spies-9780803222618","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}