Stanley Karnow

Stanley Karnow was born in New York and graduated from Harvard in 1947. He began his journalistic career in Paris in 1950 as a Time correspondent. He covered Southeast Asia from 1959 until 1974 for Time , Life , the Saturday Evening Post , the London Observer , the Washington Post , and NBC News and was later an editor for the New Republic . He has written a number of books, including the bestselling Vietnam: A History and the Pulitzer Prize-winning In Our Image: America's Empire in the...See more

Stanley Karnow was born in New York and graduated from Harvard in 1947. He began his journalistic career in Paris in 1950 as a Time correspondent. He covered Southeast Asia from 1959 until 1974 for Time , Life , the Saturday Evening Post , the London Observer , the Washington Post , and NBC News and was later an editor for the New Republic . He has written a number of books, including the bestselling Vietnam: A History and the Pulitzer Prize-winning In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines . He lives in Washington, DC. See less