{"product_id":"done-in-a-day-telex-from-the-fall-of-saigon-hardcover","title":"Done in a Day: Telex from the Fall of Saigon - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed one of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLit Hub's \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003emost anticipated books of the year.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA searing reflection on the last day of the Vietnam War and the beginning of the end of foreign reporting in the nation's daily newspapers. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDone in a Day\u003c\/i\u003e turns on a single event: the April 30, 1975, departure of the last helicopter evacuating civilians from the rooftop of the US embassy in Saigon. Elisa Tamarkin's interest in that helicopter begins with the fact that her stepfather, the Saigon bureau chief for the \u003ci\u003eChicago Daily News\u003c\/i\u003e, was on it--the last American correspondent to leave Saigon as it fell. His report was filed from a naval ship on the South China Sea at a time when no other telexes were going through. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow, more than fifty years later, Tamarkin offers a social and cultural autopsy of that moment, based in personal history but vividly unfolding amid the vast documentation of America's obvious defeat, which never seemed to register even as it got out, in the writings of journalists and essayists, in the backchannel cables between US ambassador Graham Martin and Henry Kissinger, in congressional hearings, and in photographs of the war's end. The story is also set against the imminent disappearance of war coverage in city newspapers--and of the newspapers themselves--once proud, in the words of the \u003ci\u003eChicago Daily News\u003c\/i\u003e, of bringing readers the \"literature of the day\" that was \"done in a day.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDone in a Day \u003c\/i\u003ebraids history, criticism, and memoir to tell the paired stories of Saigon's liberation and the demise of the news. The result is a haunting essay about all that ended in a day--and about what it means to recognize and to write about endings even as we live through them.","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46865280073884,"sku":"9780226846996","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0712\/7616\/7324\/files\/9780226846996.jpg?v=1778898543","url":"https:\/\/bronzeandbrass.store\/products\/done-in-a-day-telex-from-the-fall-of-saigon-hardcover","provider":"Bronze \u0026 Brass","version":"1.0","type":"link"}