Playbill

January, 1971

One Year Ago, David Halberstam wrote in Playboy about the ideological rape of a small Southeast Asian nation by a military superpower. The article was called The Americanization of Vietnam. Halberstam, who won a Pulitzer Prize (and incurred the wrath of John F. Kennedy) for his forthright reporting of the early years of our involvement in that tortured little country, returns to our pages this month with an analysis of The Vietnamization of America, an eloquent evocation of the spiritual malaise...