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Books about Vietnam struggle to find buyers in postwar market
Gloria Emerson’s memoir and a flood of forthcoming titles reveal a publishing scene wrestling with Vietnam’s enduring impact. Editors note books on the war sell slowly, while new novels and a few serious histories explore trauma, racism, and political mistakes without easy public appetite.
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New York
Gloria Emerson
Random House
Vietnam
Robert Wagner
Emerson
New York Times
Saigon
John Pilger
Tiziano Terzani
Pilger
Watergate
Nixon
Charles Elliott
Alfred Knopf
Edmund Blunden
Robert Graves
Erich Maria Remarque
Elliott
Frances Fitzgerald
David Halberstam
Samuel Johnson
Ron Kovic
Robert Stone
Larry Heinemann
Cu Chi
Farrar Straits
Heinemann
Pat Strachan
Peter Tauber
Harcourt Brace
Tauber
Eugene McCarthy
Richard Goodwin
van Tien Dung
Hanoi
Nhan Dan
People’s Daily
Monthly Review Press
Friendshipment
William Colby
CIA
Simon and Schuster
Washington Post
Colby
Sam Adams
Army
Indochina
Adams
Nortone Hill and Wang
Farrar Straus
Georges Condominas
France
Condominas
U.S
Chicago