Winners & Losers, by Gloria Emerson

Winners & Losers: Battles, Retreats, Gains, Losses and Ruins from the Vietnam War, by Gloria Emerson
WW Norton & Company, 1976
380 psges, plus notes and index. No photos.


Description
Now an American classic, this is a Vietnam book unlike any other, written by a woman who, after two years of covering the war for The New York Times, comes home wanting to once more love her country and to understand it.

In four years of interviews that Newsweek called "superb" Emerson traveled across America to speak to people who fought the war or who fought against it, to those who paid little attention and to others whose lives were changed by it.

Her reporting on a small town in Kentucky, which suffered high losses, is considered a remarkable enquiry into the meaning of war and its effect on us.

Winners & Losers is not just a book about the American experience, for she writes about the Vietnamese people as well with the same insight and brilliance that characterized her reporting during the war, which held her, and so many others, long after it was over.

Gloria Emerson covered Vietnam as a foreign corresponndent for The New York Times and won the GEorge Polk Award. Her articles on Vietnam and other subjects appeared widely in magazines. Winners & Losers won a National Book Award in 1978. Emerson is also the author of Some American Men; hr most recent boo is Gaza: A Year in the Untifada, which won the James Aronson Journalism Award for Social Justice.

Table of Contents
Foreword
1. Endings: One kind or another
2. Families: Together and Not Together
3. Small Places
4. Odd Things Not Yet Forgotten
5. Experts
6. Winners and Losers
Notes
Index