FitzGerald, Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam (1972)

Frances FitzGerald.
Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1972.
New York: Back Bay Books / Little, Brown and Company (Hachette Book Group), 2002.

Book Information: Publisher; Pulitzer Prize 1973; Bancroft Prize 1973; National Book Award 1973; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.

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Author Information:

• Frances FitzGerald, francesfitzgerald.net.
• Frances FitzGerald, The New Yorker.
• Frances FitzGerald (b. 1940), Wikipedia.
• Frances FitzGerald, C-SPAN.org.
• Frances FitzGerald. America Revised: History Schoolbooks in the Twentieth Century. Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1979.
  [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Frances FitzGerald. Cities on a Hill. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Frances FitzGerald. Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Frances FitzGerald. The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Desmond FitzGerald (1910–1967), Wikipedia; father of Frances FitzGerald.
• Marietta Peabody Tree (1917–1991), Wikipedia; mother of Frances FitzGerald.
• Jim Sterba. Frankie's Place: A Love Story. New York: Grove Press, 2003.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Video: Frances FitzGerald

• Frances FitzGerald and Clete Roberts, "Frances Fitzgerald: Author of Fire In the Lake, Talks about Covering the Vietnam War," Vietnam Reconsidered: Lessons from the War conference, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, February 1983.
  • Clete Roberts (1912–1984), Wikipedia.
• William Hammond, Jerrold Schecter, Nguyen Tien Hung, Frances FitzGerald, Guenter Lewy, Robert Miller, "Ending the Vietnam War," Richard Nixon Symposium, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, C-SPAN.org, 21 November 1987.
  (Frances FitzGerald's remarks begin at times 1:05:05 and 1:50:45.
  Note that the C-SPAN.org website has several other videos of sessions from this Richard Nixon Symposium, 19–21 November 1987.)
  • William Hammond, Wikipedia.
  • William M. Hammond. Public Affairs: the Military and the Media, 1962-1968: United States Army in Vietnam. Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, United States Army, Government Printing Office, 1988.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Nguyễn Tiến Hưng (b. 1935), Wikipedia.
  • Nguyen Tien Hung and Jerrold L. Schecter. The Palace File. New York: Harper & Row, 1986.
    [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Guenter Lewy (b. 1923), Wikipedia.
  • Guenter Lewy. America in Vietnam. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Robert Hopkins Miller (b. 1927), Wikipedia.
• Paul Berman, Morris Dickstein, Frances FitzGerald, Howard Lentner, Michael Lind, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Ronald Steel, William J. Vanden Heuvel, "Post World War II America," ["The Cold War, Vietnam & A Post Communist World,"] The Center for the Humanities, City University of New York, C-SPAN.org, 16 May 1997.
  • The Center for the Humanities, The Graduate Center, CUNY.
  • Paul Berman (b. 1949), Wikipedia.
  • Morris Dickstein (b. 1940), Wikipedia.
  • Howard H. Lentner [obituary], Department of Political Science, Baruch College, CUNY.
  • Michael Lind (b. 1962), Wikipedia.
  • Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (1917–2007), Wikipedia.
  • Ronald Steel (b. 1931), Wikipedia.
  • William J. vanden Heuvel (b. 1930), Wikipedia.
• Kevin Buckley, Frances FitzGerald, David Greenway, Christie Hefner, Marlene Sanders, Sydney Schanberg, James Sterba, "Reporting Vietnam Panel 1," Newseum New York, Freedom Forum, C-SPAN.org, 10 December 1998.
  • Kevin Buckley, "McNamara's Lethal Illusions," The Daily Beast, 06 July 2009.
  • Kevin Buckley. Panama: The Whole Story. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • David Greenway, C-SPAN.org.
  • Christie Hefner (b. 1952), Wikipedia.
  • Marlene Sanders (1931–2015), Wikipedia.
  • Sydney Schanberg (1934–2016), Wikipedia.
  • James P. Sterba, Wikipedia.
  • Jim Sterba's Home Page, jimsterba.com.
  • Reporting Vietnam: Part One: American Journalism, 1959-1969. Edited by Milton J. Bates, Lawrence Lichty, Paul Miles, Ronald H. Spector, Marilyn Young. New York: Library of America (Literary Classics of the United States), 1998.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Reporting Vietnam: Part Two: American Journalism, 1969-1975. Edited by Milton J. Bates, Lawrence Lichty, Paul Miles, Ronald H. Spector, Marilyn Young. New York: Library of America (Literary Classics of the United States), 1998.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Frances FitzGerald, Peter Kann, Brian Lamb, "Reporting Vietnam," Booknotes, C-SPAN.org, 06 January 1999.
  • Peter R. Kann (b. 1942), Wikipedia.
  • Reporting Vietnam: Part One: American Journalism, 1959-1969. Edited by Milton J. Bates, Lawrence Lichty, Paul Miles, Ronald H. Spector, Marilyn Young. New York: Library of America (Literary Classics of the United States), 1998.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Reporting Vietnam: Part Two: American Journalism, 1969-1975. Edited by Milton J. Bates, Lawrence Lichty, Paul Miles, Ronald H. Spector, Marilyn Young. New York: Library of America (Literary Classics of the United States), 1998.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Frances FitzGerald, Fredrik Logevall, Robert Scheer, "Vietnam Reconsidered," Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, BookTV, C-SPAN.org, 30 April 2000.
  • Fredrik Logevall, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
  • Fredrik Logevall (b. 1963), Wikipedia.
  • Fredrik Logevall. Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Fredrik Logevall. Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam. New York: Random House, 2012.
    [Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Robert Scheer (b. 1936), Wikipedia.
  • Robert Scheer. How the United States Got Involved in Vietnam. Santa Barbara, California: Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, 1965.
    [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Roger Angell, Peter Canby, William Finnegan, Frances FitzGerald, Philip Gourevitch, David Halberstam, "Annals of War," The New Yorker Magazine 75th Anniversary Festival, New York, BookTV, C-SPAN.org, 06 May 2000.
  • Roger Angell (b. 1920), Wikipedia.
  • Peter Canby, The New Yorker.
  • William Finnegan (b. 1963), Wikipedia.
  • Philip Gourevitch (b. 1961), Wikipedia.
  • David Halberstam (1934–2007), Wikipedia.
• Frances FitzGerald, Chris Hedges, Jonathan Schell, "The U.S. at War in the Nuclear Age," The Nation Institute, New School University, New York, BookTV, C-SPAN.org, 03 March 2005.
  • The Nation Institute.
  • The New School.
  • Chris Hedges (b. 1954), Wikipedia.
  • Jonathan Schell (1943–2014), Wikipedia.
• Frances FitzGerald, Dan Rather, Stephen S. Bell, John Fisher Burns, Brian Williams, "Vietnam and the Presidency - The Media and the Role of Public Opinion," John F. Kennedy Library and Museum, Boston, C-SPAN.org, 11 March 2006.
  • Event Information, John F. Kennedy Library and Museum.
  • Dan Rather (b. 1931), Wikipedia.
  • Steve Bell (b. 1935), Wikipedia.
  • John Fisher Burns (b. 1944), Wikipedia.
  • Brian Williams (b. 1959), Wikipedia.
• Dorothy Fall, Frances FitzGerald, Jonathan Schell, Ron Steinman, "Media Coverage of the War in Vietnam and Beyond," Barnes and Noble Booksellers, New York City, BookTV, C-SPAN.org, 28 March 2007.
  • Bernard B. Fall (1926–1967), Wikipedia.
  • Dorothy Fall. Bernard Fall: Memories of a Soldier-Scholar. Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2006.
    [Publisher; Book Website; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Jonathan Schell (1943–2014), Wikipedia.
  • Jonathan Schell. The Real War: The Classic Reporting on the Vietnam War. New York: Pantheon Books, 1987. New York: Da Capo Press (Hachette Books Group), 2000.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com 2000.]
  • Ron Steinman, C-SPAN.org.
  • 1967 in the Vietnam War.
  • 1967 in the United States.
• Frances FitzGerald, Victor Navasky, David Rieff, George Soros, Andras Szanto, Drew Westen, "What Orwell Didn't Know," Miami Book Fair International, BookTV, C-SPAN.org, 11 November 2007.
  • Andras Szanto, editor. What Orwell Didn’t Know: Propaganda and the New Face of American Politics. New York: PublicAffairs (Hachette Books Group), 2007.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • George Orwell (1903–1950), "Politics and the English Language," 1946.
  • Victor Saul Navasky (b. 1932), Wikipedia.
  • David Rieff (b. 1952), Wikipedia.
  • George Soros (b. 1930), Wikipedia.
  • András Szántó (b. 1964), Wikipedia.
  • Drew Westen, Wikipedia.
• Frances FitzGerald, Fredrik Logevall, Lien-Hang Nguyen, James M. Lindsay, "Fifty Years After the Tet Offensive: Lessons From the Vietnam War," Council on Foreign Relations, 08 February 2018.
  • YouTube Video.
  • Fredrik Logevall, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
  • Fredrik Logevall (b. 1963), Wikipedia.
  • Fredrik Logevall. Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Fredrik Logevall. Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam. New York: Random House, 2012.
    [Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Lien-Hang Nguyen, Department of History, Columbia University.
  • Lien-Hang Nguyen, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
  • Lien-Hang Nguyen. Hanoi’s War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • James M. Lindsay, Council on Foreign Relations.
  • Tet Offensive, began 30 January 1968, Wikipedia.
• Frances FitzGerald, Phil Klay, Lucian Truscott, "Writing About War," Milford Readers and Writers Festival, Milford, Pennsylvania, BookTV, C-SPAN.org, 29 September 2018.
  • Writing About War, Milford Readers and Writers Festival, 29 September 2018.
  • Milford Readers and Writers Festival.
  • Phil Klay (b. 1983), Wikipedia.
  • Phil Klay. Redeployment. New York: Penguin Books, 2015.
    [Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Lucian K. Truscott IV (b. 1947), Wikipedia.
  • Lucian K. Truscott IV. Dress Grey. New York: Doubleday, 1978. New York: Signet, 1997. Open Road Media, 2014.
    [Publisher 2014; Google Books 1997; Google Books 2014; Amazon.com 1978; Amazon.com 1997.]

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Other Video:

• Sean Sculley, "The Vietnam War Era," U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York, Lectures in History, C-SPAN.org, 14 April 2011.
  (This lecture is a discussion of an excerpt from FitzGerald's Fire in the Lake.)
  • LTC Seanegan Sculley, Department of History, U.S. Military Academy.
  • Frances FitzGerald, "A Clash of Cultures," in Light at the End of the Tunnel: A Vietnam War Anthology, Third Edition, edited by Andrew J. Rotter. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2010.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
    This essay is an extract from FitzGerald's book Fire in the Lake.
• I collected more videos related to the Vietnam War in my posts for:
  • Halberstam, The Best and the Brightest (1972);
  • Karnow, Vietnam: A History (1997).

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Wikipedia Articles:

• Vietnam.
• Culture of Vietnam.
• History of Vietnam.
• French Indochina, 1887 – 1954.
• First Indochina War, December 1946 – July 1954.
• Vietnam War (Second Indochina War), November 1955 – April 1975.
• Communist Party of Vietnam, founded February 1930.
• History of Communist Party of Vietnam.
• Việt Minh, founded May 1941.
• South Vietnam (Republic of Vietnam), 1955 – 1975.
• Viet Cong, National Liberation Front (NLF), founded December 1960.
• Buddhist crisis, South Vietnam, May – November 1963.
• Thích Quảng Đức: Self-immolation, 11 June 1963.
• 1963 South Vietnamese coup d'état, November 1963.
• Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ (1908–1976), Prime Minister of South Vietnam, November 1963 – January 1964.
• Dương Văn Minh ("Big Minh") (1916–2001), Chairman of the Military Revolutionary Council, South Vietnam, November 1963 – January 1964.
• Nguyễn Khánh (1927–2013), Chairman of the Military Revolutionary Council, South Vietnam, January 1964 – February 1965.
• South Vietnam government of Thieu / Ky / Co established in June 1965.
  • Nguyễn Văn Thiệu (1923–2001).
  • Nguyễn Cao Kỳ (1930–2011).
  • Nguyễn Hữu Có (1925–2012).
• Declaration of Honolulu, 1966, February 1966.
• Buddhist Uprising of 1966.
• South Vietnamese Constitutional Assembly election, 1966, 11 September 1966.
• Operation Cedar Falls, January 1967.
• Guam Conference, 20 March 1967.
• South Vietnamese presidential election, 1967, 03 September 1967.
• Tet Offensive, began 30 January 1968.
• Cambodian Campaign, April – July 1970.
• Operation Lam Son 719, February – March 1971.
• FitzGerald finished writing Fire in the Lake in 1971. Lam Son 719 is the last event she discusses; but, of course, particular events are not the main focus of the book.

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• The following scholars/writers contributed to FitzGerald's interpretation:
• Paul Mus (1902-1969) wrote books about Vietnam.
• Frantz Fanon (1925–1961) wrote books about colonialism.
• Octave Mannoni (1899–1989) wrote a book about colonialism.

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• I compiled other lists of Wikipedia articles related to the Vietnam War in my posts for:
  • Halberstam, The Best and the Brightest (1972);
  • Karnow, Vietnam: A History (1997).

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