Fire in the Lake by Frances FitzGerald6/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Discusses the French conquest up to the Geneva Conference of 1954, which the U.S. Contrasts the differences between the North & the South, & shows how Ho was more successful in the North rather than the South & why. view of China right up to Ho's time, was to reject Chinese political domination but adopt Chinese political culture. Frances FitzGerald, Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam. Writer points out that the traditional Viet. In his failure Nhu had withdrawn so far into himself that in the end his face was a mask that no longer opened onto the real world. The village was modelled on the Vietnamese family, & the village served as a model for the state. This concept is carried over to the institution of the village, which figures so important in traditional Vietnamese society. For a Vietnamese, equal justice was secondary to social harmony. Writer discusses how the notion of Communism repels American intellectuals, but for Vietnam society, the notion is not so radical. Traces the development of the society from the 10th-century Chinese conquest through the organizing efforts of Ho Chi Minh in the north, & the abdication of French figurehead Bao Dai, in the south. Writer suggests that the reason for American failure in Vietnam was due to a lack of understanding of the country & its people. ![]() ANNALS OF WAR about Vietnam, Vietnamese history & Vietnamese culture. Frances FitzGerald is a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Bancroft Prize, among others. ![]()
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