#68
Title: Vietnam, Now: A Reporter Returns
Author: David Lamb
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Year: 2002
Genre: Memoir, History, Vietnam
288 pages
Lamb, a reporter during the American War, and again a reporter in Hanoi in the late '90s, gives a complex, nuanced account of Vietnam. Lamb captures the ambiguity of Vietnam as well as his ambivalence--he sees the best and worst in Vietnamese culture. Lamb is well-situated to comment on enduring trends and transient phenomena, and he does so even-handedly and with reasonable self-reflection. Lamb is neither romantic nor cynical about Vietnam, making this book especially refreshing in its genre. Read with Thuong Nhu Tang's A Viet Cong Memoir: An Inside Account of the Vietnam War and its Aftermath, and as a well-balanced contrast to Brownmiller's rather negative Seeing Vietnam.
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