Stanley Karnow
Stanley Karnow (born February 4, 1925 in New York City)[1] is an American journalist and historian.
After serving with the United States Army Air Forces in Asia during World War II, he graduated from Harvard with a bachelor's degree in 1947; in 1947 and 1948 he attended the Sorbonne, and from 1948 to 1949 the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris. He then began his career in journalism as Time correspondent in Paris in 1950. After covering Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (where he was North Africa bureau chief in 1958-59), he went to Asia, where he spent the most influential part of his career.[2]
He covered Asia from 1959 until 1974 for Time, Life, the Saturday Evening Post, the London Observer, the Washington Post, and NBC News. Present in Vietnam in July 1959 when the first Americans were killed[3], he reported on the Vietnam War in its entirety. This landed him a place on the master list of Nixon political opponents. It was during this time that he drew together the stimulus for his seminal 1983 book Vietnam: A History. He was chief correspondent for the PBS series Vietnam: A Television History, which won six Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award, a George Polk Award and an DuPont-Columbia Award. In 1990, Karnow won the Pulitzer Prize in history for his book In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines. His other books include Mao and China: From Revolution to Revolution, which was nominated for a National Book Award; and Paris in the Fifties (1997), a memoir history of his own experiences of living in Paris in the 1950s. His wife, Annette, died of cancer in July 2009.[4]
Karnow currently lives outside of Washington, D.C. He belongs to the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Society of Historians.
[edit] Works
- Vietnam: A History ISBN 0140265473
- In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines ISBN 0-345-32816-7
- Mao and China: From Revolution to Revolution
- Mao and China: Inside China's Cultural Revolution ISBN 0-140-07221-7
- Paris in the Fifties a memoir (1997) ISBN 0-8129-2781-8
- "The Vietnam debacle" Salon, April 27, 2000
[edit] References
- ^ Heinz Dietrich Fischer and Erika J. Fischer, American History Awards 1917-1991: From Colonial Settlements to the Civil Rights Movements (Walter de Gruyter, 1994: ISBN 3598301774), p. 345.
- ^ Fischer and Fischer, American History Awards 1917-1991, p. 345.
- ^ Stanley Karnow "First Blood in Vietnam," American Heritage, Winter 2010.
- ^ Hillel Italie, "Interesting times, indeed, for Stanley Karnow," Los Angeles Times, January 08, 2010.
