Volume 19, Number 5 · October 5, 1972
What Is It About the Vietnamese?
By Martin Bernal
Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
by Frances FitzGerald
Atlantic-Little, Brown, 491 pp., $12.50
As Frances FitzGerald would be the first to point out, Fire in the Lake is a synthesis. Quite rightly she has relied heavily on the work of others. Many sources are referred to both in the footnotes and in the text. But her book is largely dominated by the work of Paul Mus, Richard Solomon, Robert Shaplen, and Otare Mannoni. The proportion of influence varies greatly from chapter to chapter, but it is these four together with the author's own observation and intelligence that give the book its coherence and flavor.
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