Annal:1973 National Book Award for Current Interest
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Results of the National Book Award in the year 1973. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
- 1973 NBA–Current Interest winner
- 1973 Pulitzer–Nonfiction winner
- Score: 20.23
This landmark work, based on Frances FitzGerald’s own research and travels, takes us inside Vietnam—into the traditional, ancestor-worshiping villages and the corrupt crowded cities, into the conflicts between Communists and anti-Communists, Catholics and Buddhists, generals and monks—and reveals the country as seen through Vietnamese eyes. With a clarity and authority unrivaled by any book before it or since, Fire in the Lake shows how America utterly and tragically misinterpreted the realities of Vietnam.
