Books

February, 1977

Gloria Emerson was for two years a New York Times correspondent in Vietnam. The experience changed her life, and her long-awaited Winners and Losers (Random House) is an attempt to find out how the war changed the rest of America. But she comes away from intimate visits with dozens of the maimed, the bored and the bitter without getting an answer.In three years of crisscrossing the United States, Emerson often found Americans vehemently repressing the entire Vietnam experience. "Asking them...