Published 25 years after the last American troops withdrew from vietnam, this unique two-volume anthology evokes a dramatic, painful, and controversial period in American history and journalism. Drawn from original newspaper and magazine reports and contemporary books, Reporting Vietnam: American Journalism 1959-1975 brings together the work of over 80 remarkable writers to create an unprecedented mosaic view of the shifting course of America's longest war and its impact on an increasingly fractured American society. It provides compelling evidence of the enduring power of the written word in the age of television.