Our Vietnam The War 1954-1975

Winner of the Overseas Press Club's Cornelius J. Ryan Award for Best Nonfiction Book, the Commonwealth Club of California's Gold Medal for Nonfiction, and the PEN Center West Award for Best Research NonfictionTwenty-five years after the end of the Vietnam War, historian and journalist A. J. Langguth delivers an authoritative account of the war based on official documents not available earlier and on new reporting from both the American and Vietnamese perspectives. InOur Vietnam,Langguth takes us inside the waffling and deceitful White Houses of Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon; documents the ineptness and corruption of our South Vietnamese allies; and recounts the bravery of soldiers on both sides of the war. With its broad sweep and keen insights,Our Vietnambrings together the kaleidoscopic events and personalities of the war into one engrossing and unforgettable narrative.

A. J. Langguth covered the war in Vietnam for The New York Times and served as its Saigon Bureau Chief. A professor of journalism at the University of Southern California, he is the author of eight previous books, including Patriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution. He lives in Los Angeles.