Gareth Porter is an American historian, media commentator and analyst who specialises in U.S. foreign policy & national security issues, particularly those relating to South-East Asia or the Middle East.
One of the best, if not the best, collections of documents relating to the wars in Indo-China with which I am familiar. Highly recommended to anyone in the field, or even the merely curious...
*This is one of several books formerly held by the Catlin Library of the Detroit News, which was sold, at least in large part, to John K. King Books (roughly two blocks down Lafayette Street in down town Detroit), from whom I purchased it.