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Stanley Karnow

Stanley Karnow was a well-respected American journalist and historian whose book In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines won him the coveted Pulitzer Prize for History. Karnow was a World War II veteran who graduated from Harvard and began his journalism career in the early 1950s. He is probably best known for his coverage of the Vietnam War.

Stanley Karnow died of congestive heart failure at the age of 87.


“I first went there late one afternoon with the fabled Paris photographer Robert Doisneau, who thrived on collecting local color.”
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“They skimped on clothing and entertainment, and, with rents tightly controlled, spent a major percentage of their income on food.”
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