Vietnam, now : a reporter returns / David Lamb.

Originally published: 2002.

Includes references

This is an extraordinary portrait of post-war Vietnam told by a journalist who covered the war and returned thirty years later to cover the peace. When he left war-ravaged Vietnam some thirty years ago, journalist David Lamb averred "I didn't care if I ever saw the wretched country again." But in 1997, he found himself living in Hanoi, in charge of the Los Angeles Times's first peacetime bureau and in the midst of a country on the move, as it progresses toward a free-market economy and divorces itself from the restrictive, isolationist policies established at the end of the war