Download or read book Continental Saigon written by Philippe Franchini and published by FeniXX. This book was released on 1976-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philippe Franchini nous livre aujourd'hui un témoignage exceptionnel sur le Vietnam : pour la première fois l'histoire vietnamienne racontée aussi du côté vietnamien. Né à Saigon, Philippe Franchini est un enfant du delta du Mékong. Sur les terres de ses grands-parents, mandarins de la province de Mytho, il se nourrit des coutumes et des traditions vietnamiennes, pendant que son père, le Corse Mathieu Franchini, dirige au centre de Saigon l'hôtel Continental. Très tôt, Philippe Franchini prend conscience de sa qualité d'eurasien, en qui deux races et deux cultures s'affrontent. Par sa mère, il appartient au Vietnam, à la terre des colonisés, par son père, il appartient à la race de ces grands aventuriers qui, partis sur la route des épices, ont cru trouver à Saigon le moyen de concrétiser leurs rêves. La tragédie du Vietnam, Philippe Franchini l'a ressentie dans sa chair, il l'a vécue plus qu'un autre. En 1965, il hérite de l'hôtel Continental, le plus vieux poste d'observation de la ville. Mathieu Franchini en avait fait le rendez-vous des casques coloniaux de la société saigonnaise, Philippe Franchini en fit le point d'ancrage des nouveaux Asiates, journalistes, écrivains, cinéastes. Les années passent, la guerre se déchaîne, les rêves demeurent... Son récit couvre un siècle de l'histoire de Saigon, de l'arrivée des Français en 1859 à la chute de la ville en 1975. Ce jour-là, Saigon — qui signifie « Tribut de l'Occident » — retrouve son identité asiatique après trente ans de guerre et devient Ho Chi Minh ville. Philippe Franchini est peintre de son métier. Ses évocations de la terre vietnamienne, si riches en couleurs, nous initient à cette étrange fascination qu'exercent depuis toujours les contrées d'Asie sur nos esprits cartésiens : une brûlure.
Download or read book Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone written by Hunter S. Thompson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of top-selected Rolling Stone articles offers insight into both the late Thompson's early career and the magazine's fledgling years, in a volume that includes the stories of his infamous Freak Party sheriff campaign and his observations about the Bush-versus-Kerry presidential rivalry.
Download or read book Fear and Loathing in America written by Hunter S. Thompson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 1116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the king of “Gonzo” journalism and bestselling author who brought you Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas comes another astonishing volume of letters by Hunter S. Thompson. Brazen, incisive, and outrageous as ever, this second volume of Thompson’s private correspondence is the highly anticipated follow-up to The Proud Highway. When that first book of letters appeared in 1997, Time pronounced it "deliriously entertaining"; Rolling Stone called it "brilliant beyond description"; and The New York Times celebrated its "wicked humor and bracing political conviction." Spanning the years between 1968 and 1976, these never-before-published letters show Thompson building his legend: running for sheriff in Aspen, Colorado; creating the seminal road book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; twisting political reporting to new heights for Rolling Stone; and making sense of it all in the landmark Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72. To read Thompson's dispatches from these years—addressed to the author's friends, enemies, editors, and creditors, and such notables as Jimmy Carter, Tom Wolfe, and Kurt Vonnegut—is to read a raw, revolutionary eyewitness account of one of the most exciting and pivotal eras in American history.
Download or read book Gonzo written by Corey Seymour and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2007-10-31 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few American lives are stranger, more action-packed, or wilder than that of Hunter S. Thompson. Born a rebel in Louisville, Kentucky, Thompson spent a lifetime channeling his energy and insight into such landmark works as Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - and his singular and provocative style challenged and revolutionized writing. Now, for the first time ever, Jann Wenner and Corey Seymour have interviewed the Good Doctor's friends, family, acquaintances and colleagues and woven their memories into a brilliant oral biography. From Hell's Angels leader Sonny Barger to Ralph Steadman to Jack Nicholson to Jimmy Buffett to Pat Buchanan to Marilyn Manson and Thompson's two wives, son, and longtime personal assistant, more than 100 members of Thompson's inner circle bring into vivid focus the life of a man who was even more complicated, tormented, and talented than any previous portrait has shown. It's all here in its uncensored glory: the creative frenzies, the love affairs, the drugs and booze and guns and explosives and, ultimately, the tragic suicide. As Thompson was fond of saying, "Buy the ticket, take the ride."
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Download or read book Vietnam written by and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of images from the Associated Press Saigon bureau is the ultimate photographic record of the drama and tragedy of the Vietnam War. To cover the Vietnam War, the Associated Press gathered an extraordinary group of superb photojournalists in its Saigon bureau, creating one of the great photographic legacies of the 20th century. Collected here are images that tell the story of the war that left a deep and lasting impression on American life. These are pictures that both recorded and made history. Author and journalist Pete Hamill, who reported from Vietnam in 1965, celebrates the achievement of these courageous photojournalists in a moving introductory essay.
Download or read book Vietnam written by Jim Sullivan and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In-depth site descriptions and background information; insightful features on history, culture, and contemporary life; more than 180 vivid color photographs; 15 detailed, full-color maps; mapped walking and driving tours; specially commissioned artwork; clear, easy-to-use design; complete visitor information plus hotels, restaurants, shopping, activities, and entertainment." - back cover.
Download or read book Saigon s Hotel Continental written by Elisha Fathree and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-02 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vietnam War, (1954-75), a protracted conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam and its allies in South Vietnam, known as the Viet Cong, against the government of South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. Vietnam, late summer 1968. An international crew of war correspondents covers the bloody conflict from their headquarters in Saigon's Hotel Continental. As the death toll mounts and the war grinds on, "Deadline" examines the question of what's the news - and how we, the public, are NOT told what is the true story.
Download or read book Vietnam Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Vietnam War Why written by M Sivaram and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 1994-09-15 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Vietnam, the newsman is reporting a strange, baffling, frontless war—and an even stranger, more baffling, faceless political scene" writes M. Sivaram. In a factual, objective, straight-from-the-shoulder report he analyzes one of the most frustrating wars in history—and answers the question "Why?" The author, an Indian journalist who has covered such world trouble-spots as Korea, Suez, Malaya, and Laos, found Vietnam his most challenging assignment since the war. He describes the rise to power of North Vietnam's Ho Chih Minh—the most important, yet least known, war leader. He sketches the history of Vietnam from its earliest days, through its years as a French colony to today. He traces the history of the Diem family, its period of almost unlimited power, and its sudden fall. He takes his readers through the bewildering maze of coups and counter-coups which have devilled the government of South Vietnam and he shows the country-people of South Vietnam living in the constant shadow of war and death. This report on Vietnam is a clear, balanced and vivid picture of a country at war with itself, and of two rival ideologies—capitalism and communism—fighting for control in a struggle that could well decide the future of all Asia.
Download or read book Songs of the Doomed written by Hunter S. Thompson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-12 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays by Hunter Thompson that chart the high and low moments of his thirty-year career as a journalist
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