Art

July, 1973

This is a bad time for writing about Vietnam. We have the appearance of peace in Indochina, though that Grail may prove more elusive than even the pessimists could have believed. And last year there were two big studies of the war: Frances FitzGerald's Fire in the Lake, which won a National Book Award, and The Best and the Brightest, by David Halberstam, a number-one best seller for several weeks. But there will probably always be something left unsaid about Vietnam: an understanding as imperfec...