Stanley Karnow: An Interesting Man in Interesting Times

Restless, skeptical, petulant and compulsively inquisitive, to the end. Stanley Karnow, the journalist and historian who wrote the definitive book on the war, fond of quoting a Chinese proverb: “May you live in Vietnam: A History, was interesting times.” It is actually the first of three curses of increasing severity meant to be heaped upon …

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