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-'''Stanley Karnow''' (born [[1925]] in [[New York City]]) is a [[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning author who covered Asia from 1959 as chief correspondent for ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' and ''[[Life (magazine)|Life]]'' magazines. Until 1974 he was in [[southeast Asia]] reporting for the ''[[Saturday Evening Post]]'', the ''[[London Observer]]'', the ''[[Washington Post]]'', and [[NBC News]]. He is a graduate of the [[Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris]] (Paris Institute of Political Studies).
-During [[World War II]], he served in the [[United States Army Air Corps]] in Asia.
-Present in [[Vietnam]] in July 1959 when the first Americans were killed, 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 [[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]] series ''[[Vietnam: A Television History]]'', which won him six [[Emmy Award]], a [[Peabody Award]], a [[George Polk Awards|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.
-Karnow currently lives outside of [[Washington, D.C.]] He belongs to the [[Council on Foreign Relations]] and the [[American Society of Historians]].
-==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''
-*''Paris in the Fifties'' a memoir (1997) ISBN 0-8129-2781-8
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-[[Category:American journalists]]
-[[Category:American historians]]
-[[Category:Vietnam War historians]]
-[[Category:Pulitzer Prize for History winners]]
-[[Category:Alumni of Sciences Po]]
-[[tl:Stanley Karnow]]