Mark Bowden (1) (1951–)
Autor/a de Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
Per altres autors anomenats Mark Bowden, vegeu la pàgina de desambiguació.
Sobre l'autor
Mark Bowden has been a reporter at The Philadelphia Inquirer for twenty-one years and has won many national awards for his writing. He is the author of "Black Hawk Down," "Bringing the Heat," "Doctor Dealer", "Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw." and, more recently, The Finish: mostra'n més "The Killing of Osama bin Laden", and Hue 1968: A Turning point of the American war in Vietnam. Bowden has also written for Talk, Men's Journal, Sports Illustrated, Rolling Stone and Playboy, among others. The original series of articles which became "Black Hawk Down" earned him the Overseas Press Club's Hal Boyle Award, and made him a finalist for the NBA in nonfiction. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Obres de Mark Bowden
Guests of the Ayatollah: The Iran Hostage Crisis: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam (2006) 991 exemplars
Doctor Dealer: The Rise and Fall of an All-American Boy and His Multimillion-Dollar Cocaine Empire (1987) 129 exemplars
The Steal: The Attempt to Overturn the 2020 Election and the People Who Stopped It (2022) 68 exemplars
Seahawk Down 1 exemplars
Obres associades
American Soldier: Stories of Special Forces from Iraq to Afghanistan (Adrenaline) (2002) — Col·laborador — 19 exemplars
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Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Bowden, Mark
- Nom oficial
- Bowden, Mark Robert
- Data de naixement
- 1951-07-17
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- St. Louis, Missouri, Etats-Unis
- Llocs de residència
- St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Oxford, Pennsylvania, USA - Educació
- Loyola University Maryland
- Professions
- journalist
writer
columnist
professor - Organitzacions
- Baltimore News-American
The Philadelphia Inquirer
The Atlantic Monthly
Vanity Fair
Loyola University Maryland
University of Delaware - Premis i honors
- Overseas Press Club's Hal Boyle Award (for original articles later used in Black Hawk Down)
National Book Award in Nonfiction finalist (for original articles later used in Black Hawk Down) - Biografia breu
- Mark Bowden reported at the Philadelphia Inquirer for twenty years and now writes for The Atlantic and other magazines. Matthew Teague is a contributor to National Geographic, The Atlantic, Esquire, and other magazines,… [adapted from Grove Atlantic]
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 25
- També de
- 7
- Membres
- 9,640
- Popularitat
- #2,485
- Valoració
- 4.0
- Ressenyes
- 193
- ISBN
- 269
- Llengües
- 12
- Preferit
- 25
Bowden does a good job of summarizing the political environment surrounding the battle and the attitude in general of the American public to the war in late ’67/early ’68. The Tet offensive caught the American leadership completely by surprise and a week into the battle were still in denial as to the scale of the attack on Hue. Wesmoreland isn’t portrayed in a particularly good light, his repeated and blatant denials of what was really going on somewhat unbelievable but plainly reflected in the TV interviews and declassified communiques of the time. One of Bowden’s conclusions and main points is that the Tet offensive and its aftermath would forever change America’s attitude toward her leaders - they would never again be blindly trusted.
I highly recommend this book. If one is interested in the entire conflict, watch the excellent eighteen or so hour PBS documentary series on the Vietnam War produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. A whole episode is spent on Tet, with pretty much the same conclusions as Bowden.… (més)