{"product_id":"perfect-spy-the-incredible-double-life-of-pham-xuan-an-time-magazine-reporter-and-vietnamese-communist-agent-9780060888398","title":"Perfect Spy: The Incredible Double Life of Pham Xuan An, Time Magazine Reporter and Vietnamese Communist Agent","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"One of the most fascinating figures in Vietnam during the War was Pham Xuan An, a Time correspondent; and, unbeknownst to me and my colleagues who covered the conflict, a clandestine Vietcong agent. Larry Berman has unraveled the mystery of his strange double life in an engrossing narrative.\" -- Stanley Karnow, author of \u003cem\u003eVietnam: A History\u003c\/em\u003e and winner of the Pulitzer Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe extraordinary story of North Vietnam's most successful spy\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring the Vietnam War, Time reporter Pham Xuan An befriended everyone who was anyone in Saigon, including American journalists such as David Halberstam and Neil Sheehan, the CIA's William Colby, and the legendary Colonel Edward Lansdale--not to mention the most influential members of the South Vietnamese government and army. None of them ever guessed that he was also providing strategic intelligence to Hanoi, smuggling invisible ink messages into the jungle inside egg rolls. His early reports were so accurate that General Giap joked, \"We are now in the U.S. war room.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003ePerfect Spy\u003c\/em\u003e, Larry Berman, who Pham Xuan An considered his official American biographer, chronicles the extraordinary life of one of the twentieth century's most fascinating spies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBerman, Larry:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eLarry Berman has written four previous books on the war in Vietnam: \u003cem\u003ePlanning a Tragedy: The Americanization of the War in Vietnam\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eLyndon Johnson's War: The Road To Stalemate in Vietnam\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eNo Peace, No Honor: Nixon, Kissinger and Betrayal in Vietnam\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ePerfect Spy: The Incredible Double Life of Pham Xuan An, Time Magazine Reporter and Vietnamese Communist Agent\u003c\/em\u003e. He has been featured on C-SPAN Book TV, Bill Moyers' \u003cem\u003eThe Public Mind\u003c\/em\u003e and David McCullough's \u003cem\u003eAmerican Experience\u003c\/em\u003e. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a Fellow in residence at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He received the Bernath Lecture Prize for contributions to our understanding of foreign relations and the Department of the Navy Vice Admiral Edwin B. Hooper Research Grant. Berman is Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Davis and Founding Dean of the Honors College at Georgia State University. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50648768086290,"sku":"9780060888398","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_612bfcd9-3f9c-4eaf-ab8b-dc088654f68e.jpg?v=1733248484","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/perfect-spy-the-incredible-double-life-of-pham-xuan-an-time-magazine-reporter-and-vietnamese-communist-agent-9780060888398","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}