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Dispatches is a New Journalism book by Michael Herr that describes the author's experiences in Vietnam as a war correspondent for Esquire magazine. First published in 1977, Dispatches was one of the first pieces of American literature that portrayed the experiences of soldiers in the Vietnam War for American readers.
Jun 24, 2016 · Michael Herr, the author of Dispatches and co-writer of Full Metal Jacket, is dead at 76. His masterpiece, Dispatches, has been out of fashion for a while, but when it was published in 1977, it...
Jun 28, 2016 · Remembering Michael Herr, Whose 'Dispatches' Brought The War In Vietnam Home. June 28, 20161:55 PM ET. Heard on Fresh Air. 14-Minute Listen. Playlist. Herr's 1977 book, Dispatches, was based on...
Michael Herr's unsparing, unorthodox retellings of the day-to-day events in Vietnam take on the force of poetry, rendering clarity from one of the most incomprehensible and nightmarish events...
Jan 1, 2001 · Michael Herr’s unsparing, unorthodox retellings of the day-to-day events in Vietnam take on the force of poetry, rendering clarity from one of the most incomprehensible and nightmarish events of our time. Dispatches is among the most blistering and compassionate accounts of war in our literature.
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Jun 25, 2016 · NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Herr, the author and Oscar-nominated screenplay writer who viscerally documented the ravages of the Vietnam War through his classic nonfiction novel “Dispatches” and through such films as “Apocalypse Now” and “Full Metal Jacket,” died after a long illness.
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Apr 5, 2021 · Michael Herr’s unsparing, unorthodox retellings of the day-to-day events in Vietnam take on the force of poetry, rendering clarity from one of the most incomprehensible and nightmarish events of our time. Dispatches is among the most blistering and compassionate accounts of war in our literature.
