Specialized Topics: The
Press
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| Arnett, Peter. Live from the Battlefield : From Vietnam to Baghdad, 35 Years in the World's War Zones. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994; Touchstone, 1995. | |
| Braestrup, Peter. Big Story : How the American Press and Television Reported and Interpreted the Crisis of Tet 1968 in Vietnam and Washington. Abridged edition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983; reprint, Novato, CA: Presideo Press, 1994. | |
| Hallin, Daniel C. "The Uncensored War" : The Media and
Vietnam. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986; Berkeley;
University of California Press, 1989. *CORE* A major and systematic scholarly analysis of coverage of the war by major news organizations, in particular the New York Times (1961-65) and the television networks (1965-73), and its impact on the social construction of the war. |
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| Herr, Michael. Dispatches. New York: Knopf, 1977; Vintage International, 1991. | |
| Prochnau, William W. Once Upon a Distant War. New York:
Times Books, 1995. A detailed look at the press in the early days of the war - Sheehan, Halberstam, Browne, Arnett, etc. |
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| Small, Melvin. Covering Dissent : The Media and the Anti-Vietnam War Movement. Perspectives in the Sixties. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1994. |
