Elizabeth Becker, Author Simon & Schuster $19.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-41787-1
Becker, a Washington Post reporter and longtime Asia hand, spent seven years researching and writing this impressive book, which tells in full the story of the Cambodian tragedy. The Khmer Rouge, attempting the ultimate revolution, operated from a...
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Elizabeth Becker, Author Clarion Books $16.95 (211p) ISBN 978-0-395-59094-2
Social science writer Becker's title aptly points out Americans' hubris: While our involvement in this war went back further than is generally realized (by the late 1950s South Vietnam received the fifth-largest amount of U.S. foreign aid), what we...
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Elizabeth Becker. Simon & Schuster, $28 (432p) ISBN 978-1-4391-6099-2
Global tourism has grown from some 25 million “trips recorded by foreign tourists” in 1950 to one billion today. Journalist Becker (America’s Vietnam War: A Narrative History) travels widely, experiencing and analyzing “the stealth industry of the...
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Elizabeth Becker. PublicAffairs, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-1-5417-6820-8
Journalist Becker (Overbooked) delivers a crisp and incisive group biography of three women who battled sexism and broke new ground while reporting on the Vietnam War and the U.S. invasion of Cambodia. During the 1968 Tet Offensive, French...
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Elizabeth Becker. Graydon House, $30 (320p) ISBN 978-1-5258-3042-6
Becker’s enchanting debut tracks the magical healing abilities passed down through one family for several generations. In 1942 Rouen, France, Helene works at Hôtel-Dieu, a convent turned military hospital. Already uncertain in the innate skills as a
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