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Henri Huet, 'Most Influential' Vietnam War Photojournalist, Finally Honored
By Sarah Wildman - Politics DailyYou might not know his name, but you've seen his work. Haunting images of men up to their waists in mud, wading through South East Asian jungles. Maybe you've seen the series of medic Thomas Cole, himself bloodied and half-blinded, covered in a sagging, once-white bandage, tending to men strewn about a makeshift hospital, a clearing really, filled with the dead, the dying, the wounded. Forty years ago today, four photojournalists died when they were shot down over the Laos sky: Larry Burrows of Life magazine, Kent Potter of United Press International, Keizaburo Shimamoto of Newsweek and the ...
Kennedy Memoir Already a Bestseller Even Before September Release
By Emily Miller - Politics DailySen. Ted Kennedy's $8 million memoir, "True Compass," is being rushed for release on Sept. 14. The publisher, Hachette Book Group, plans to send 1.5 million copies to bookstores. According to pre-release orders by online booksellers, the Kennedy book is already a bestseller. "True Compass" was originally slated for publication in 2010. Hachette moved up the release date to this October after Kennedy was diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer. Three weeks ago, the publisher decided to again move up publication to mid-September. The manuscript was only just completed "earlier this summer," a ...
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