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Michael David Herr was an American writer and war correspondent, known as the author of Dispatches , a memoir of his time as a correspondent for Esquire magazine during the Vietnam War. The book was called the best "to have been written about the Vietnam War" by The New York Times Book Review; novelist John le Carré called it "the best book I have ever read on men and war in our time." Herr later was credited with pioneering the literary genre of the nonfiction novel, along with authors such as Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, and Tom Wolfe.

✵ 13. April 1940 – 23. June 2016   •   Other names מייקל הר, 邁克爾·赫爾

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Dispatches
Dispatches
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Famous Michael Herr Quotes

“There was such a dense concentration of energy there [Vietnam], American and essentially adolescent, if that energy could have been channeled into anything more than noise, waste and pain it would have lighted up Indochina for a thousand years.”

Michael Herr book Dispatches

Dispatches (1977)

“Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam, we've all been there.”

Michael Herr book Dispatches

Dispatches (1977)

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