Charles Trueheart’s account of his father’s battles with a once-close fellow Foreign Service officer in Saigon illuminates the American tragedy in Southeast Asia—and should be considered one of the finest accounts of the war.
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Timothy Noah
TImothy Noah is a staff writer at The New Republic, a contributing editor of the Washington Monthly, and the author of The Great Divergence: America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do About It.