Perfect Spy: The Incredible Double Life Of Pham Xuan An, Time Magazine R eporter And Vietnamese Communist Agent

Praise for NO PEACE NO HONOR “A marvelous piece of work.” - Daniel EllsbergPraise for NO PEACE NO HONOR “Carefully researched, authoritative, and highly readable.” - Stanley Karnow, author of Vietnam: A HistoryPraise for LYNDON JOHNSON’S WAR “A masterful job.” - Marvin KalbPraise for LYNDON JOHNSON’S WAR “Highly readable, full of telling quoted from newly opened sources.” - Walter LafeberPraise for LYNDON JOHNSON’S WAR “Berman has delivered the coup de grace.” - Townsend Hoopes“Berman has unraveled the mystery of his strange double life in an engrossing narrative.” - Stanley Karnow, author of Vietnam: A History and winner of the 1991 Pulitzer Prize in history“A remarkable blend of biography, history, and personal experience… Highly recommended.” —A.O. Edmonds - Library Journal“Berman has brilliantly captured Pham Xuan An’s incredible double life. His book is informative history with the attributes of a Cold War spy thriller.” - Robert Dallek“A remarkable blend of biography, history, and personal experience … Highly recommended.” - Library Journal“Larry Berman in his book–insightful, overdue, an authentic ‘Shock and Awe’ story–deftly humanizes the contradictions in An’s life” - -Bernard Kalb“Berman has done an excellent job… There’s plenty here for both supporters and critics of the Vietnam War to ponder.” - Dan Southerland, former correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor in Saigon

Larry Berman has written four previous books on the war in Vietnam: Planning a Tragedy: The Americanization of the War in Vietnam; Lyndon Johnson’s War: The Road To Stalemate in Vietnam; No Peace, No Honor: Nixon, Kissinger and Betrayal in Vietnam and Perfect Spy: The Incredible Double Life of Pham Xuan An, Time Magazine Reporter and Vietnamese Communist Agent. He has been featured on C-SPAN Book TV, Bill Moyers’ The Public Mind and David McCullough’s American Experience. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a Fellow in residence at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He received the Bernath Lecture Prize for contributions to our understanding of foreign relations and the Department of the Navy Vice Admiral Edwin B. Hooper Research Grant. Berman is Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Davis and Founding Dean of the Honors College at Georgia State University. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.