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S'està carregant… Steinbeck in Vietnam: Dispatches from the Warde John Steinbeck
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Steinbeck in Vietnam offers for the first time a complete collection of the dispatches Steinbeck wrote as a war correspondent for Newsday. Rejected by the military because of his reputation as a subversive, and reticent to document the war officially for the Johnson administration, Steinbeck saw in Newsday a unique opportunity to put his skills to use. Between December 1966 and May 1967, the sixty-four-year-old toured the major combat areas of South Vietnam and traveled to the north of Thailand and into Laos, documenting his experiences in a series of columns titled Letters to Alicia, in reference to Newsday publisher Harry F. Guggenheim's deceased wife. His columns were controversial, coming at a time when opposition to the conflict was growing and even ardent supporters were beginning to question its course. As he dared to go into the field, rode in helicopter gunships, and even fired artillery pieces, many detractors called him a warmonger and worse. Readers today might be surprised that the celebrated author would risk his literary reputation to document such a divisive war, particularly at the end of his career. -- Jacket. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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from December 10,1966 New York essay.
Between Dec 1966 and May 1967, Steinbeck wrote a second series of columns forNewsday, also called Letters To Alicia.
Called such, they were a tribute to Alicia Patterson Guggenheim. (the recently deceased editor who had overseen its
rise to prominence.)
Drawn from various archives, they are the political and personal essays of Steinbeck as war correspondent for Newsday.
He and wife Elaine (as private citizens) traveled through southeast Asia as he compiled 58 essays.
The assignment was important to him because he would speak to a large readership, see the war independent of LBJ and the title of emisary and
see his son John IV, stationed in Vietnam.
After orientations and being given a military escort he began field operations and his work as a military field reporter.
There is the fact that he had been labeled as subversive by Army Intelligence (1943) and had an FBI dossier starting in the early 1940's
But, Steinbeck was not a Communist at any period in his life.
Because some of his writings appeared in Communist publications, military service was not an option.
Steinbeck remained patriotic despite the accusation.
Taken from a January 14th 1967 dispatch:
"This war in Vietnam is very confusing not only to old war watchers like me but to people at home who read and try to understand.
It's a feeling war with no fronts and no rear....It is everywhere like a thin ever-present gas"
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