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Stanley Karnow

Born

in The United States

February 04, 1925

Died

January 27, 2013

Genre

History, Nonfiction

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Stanley Karnow was a well-respected American journalist and historian whose book In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines won him the coveted Pulitzer Prize for History. Karnow was a World War II veteran who graduated from Harvard and began his journalism career in the early 1950s. He is probably best known for his coverage of the Vietnam War.

Stanley Karnow died of congestive heart failure at the age of 87. ...more

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Average rating: 4.11 · 9,409 ratings · 514 reviews · 17 distinct works • Similar authors

	Vietnam: A History 4.13 avg rating — 7,977 ratings — published 1983 — 69 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines 4.11 avg rating — 849 ratings — published 1989 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Paris in the Fifties 3.75 avg rating — 439 ratings — published 1997 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mao and China: A Legacy of Turmoil by Stanley Karnow, Nien Cheng (Introduction) 3.71 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 1972 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vietnam: The War Nobody Won 4.36 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1983 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Southeast Asia 3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1962 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vietnam: A History 1 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1984 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vietnam: A History 2 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1984	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Asian Americans in Transition by Stanley Karnow, Nancy Yoshihara really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1992	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Asianization of America 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I first went there late one afternoon with the fabled Paris photographer Robert Doisneau, who thrived on collecting local color.”
― Stanley Karnow, Paris in the Fifties

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“They skimped on clothing and entertainment, and, with rents tightly controlled, spent a major percentage of their income on food.”
― Stanley Karnow, Paris in the Fifties

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“The United States continued to practice forms of economic and political imperialism in the years ahead, but territorial conquest began and ended in the Philippines.”
― Stanley Karnow, In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines

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Pulitzer Prize in Biography, General Nonfiction, or History

Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America by Gilbert King, Winner General Nonfiction, 2013

11 votes, 32.4%

Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution by Jack N. Rakove, Winner History, 1997

6 votes, 17.6%

Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 by Edwin G. Burrows, Winner History, 1999

6 votes, 17.6%

God: A Biography by Jack Miles, Winner Biography, 1996

4 votes, 11.8%

The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation by Gene Roberts, Winner History, 2007

4 votes, 11.8%

In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines by Stanley Karnow, Winner History, 1990

3 votes, 8.8%

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