Ann Bryan Mariano

A journalist, Mariano was sent by a German tabloid to cover the Vietnam war. Overseas Weekly delighted in uncovering problems, and reported on war profiteering, drug use by soldiers, officers dealing in the black market, racial discrimination in the ranks, and other hard-hitting topics. The U.S. military reacted by refusing to allow the publication on military bases. "Our only recourse was a lawsuit," Mariano said later. They lost the suit, which claimed the military violated the paper's First Amendment rights, but won on appeal. "Ann Bryan Mariano was the consummate investigative reporter during her years in Saigon," said Joe Galloway, a war correspondent and co-author of We Were Soldiers Once ... and Young. "She was the real deal." After the war, Mariano went back to Vietnam and helped her co-workers escape, and then was an editor at the Washington Post until she retired in 1996. She died February 25 from Alzheimer's disease at 76. From This is True for 8 March 2009 Suggestions for further reading: The Man from Saigon: A Novel by Marti Leimbach Amazon Price: $17.13 Customer Review: The Man From Saigon by Marti Leimbach is the story of Susan, an American news reporter on location in Saigon during the Vietnam War. Not previously a war-correspondent reporter, her editor feels it's time she went on location to get some real live ac...   The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban by Sarah Chayes Amazon Price: $10.88 Customer Review: I believe the publishers misrepresented the book. The cover and reviews portray the work as an analysis of post-2001 Afghanistan, and an indictment of the errors of the US military and the Afghan government. The book focuses on the governor and poli...   Scoop by Evelyn Waugh Amazon Price: $10.19 Customer Review: "Scoop" was Evelyn Waugh's skewering of England's Fleet Street newspaper ways. Known for his wry humor and satire, Waugh presents a portrait of newspapermen who know the business too well or not well enough. Yet for all its humor, "Scoop" is somewh...   Kaputt (New York Review Books Classics) by Curzio Malaparte Amazon Price: $11.53 Customer Review: Malaparte's book is a superficial documentary about the horrors of the Second World War, the arrogance of the nobility, the cynicism of the fascist leaders and some aspects of fascist international policies. The killing of the intellectu...   The Quiet American (Critical Library, Viking) by Graham Greene Amazon Price: $13.60 Customer Review: Grahame Greene's THE QUIET AMERICAN is so eerily accurate regarding Vietnam that a textual critic might believe the novel was written in 1976 and not 1956. What isn't surprising is that Greene's prose sparkles, and for him, a rather first rate plot. ...   Newsfeed display by CaRP

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