Tom Bissell preemptively says at the start of his new book, The Father of All Things: A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam, that there are more than 30,000 books about Vietnam in print. So why does the world need another? Bissell, the author of three previous books, offers a convincing answer to this question in the form of an exuberant amalgam of anecdotal memoir, fact-based imagining, popular history, travel narrative, and interviews with sons and daughters of Vietnamese and American veterans. … Back to Article
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