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Done in a Day: Telex from the Fall of Saigon

By Elisa Tamarkin
Hardcover
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By Elisa Tamarkin
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Based in history and personal accounts from her family, Elisa Tamarkin takes readers step-by-step through the final day of the Vietnam War as chronicled by her stepfather, the last American news correspondent to leave Saigon on April 30th, 1975.

Named one of Lit Hub's most anticipated books of the year.

A 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.

Done in a Day 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 Chicago Daily News,...