Douglas Valentine
Auteur de The Phoenix Program
A propos de l'auteur
Douglas Valentine is an American journalist and author of The Hotel Tacloban, The Phoenix Program, The Strength of the Wolf (winner of the Choice Academic Library Award), and The Strength of the Pack His articles have appeared regularly in CounterPunch, Consortium News, and elsewhere. Portions of afficher plus his research materials are archived at the National Security Archive, Texas Tech University's Vietnam Center, and John Jay College. afficher moins
Œuvres de Douglas Valentine
The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World (2016) 64 exemplaires
Oeuvres associées
Everything You Know Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Secrets and Lies (2002) — Contributeur — 978 exemplaires
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Mr. Valentine - the author as well of ''The Hotel Tacloban,'' about life in a Japanese prisoner of war camp - has written as turgid and dense and often incomprehensible a book as I have ever had the misfortune to open. Somewhere in those almost 500 gray pages there is stuff of great importance: examples of human folly, courage, stupidity and greed.
Mr. Valentine handles these epic themes as so much fodder from a database - not unlike the paper end of the Phoenix program itself. He has interviewed scores of participants in Phoenix, but instead of putting the interviews into some kind of historical (or even logical) framework - it's called editing - he has simply transcribed them. And if Phoenix acted like Phoenix talked, then the American intervention in Vietnam was even more inept than those of us who were witnesses believed. ...… (plus d'informations)