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| Cover shown is for the Oct. 2006 Norton reissue. |
| OUR OWN WORST ENEMY William J. Lederer New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1968 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-0-393-33282-7 | ||||
| ISBN-10 0-393-33282-9 | 285pp. | HC | $4.95 | |
| Page 26: | "Probably 90 per cent of the interpreters employed by the Americans in Vietnam are telling us either what the military junta, headed by President Thieu and Vice President Ky, want, or what the enemy wants." |
| Spelling, number: S/B "Viet Nam" and "wants" (the junta). |
| Page 36: | "It was decided, for example, that when the presidential campaign was well underway Ky would hold a public rally in Saigon..." |
| Missing space: S/B "under way". |
| Page 63: | "At a seminar discussion of the present situation in terms of past history, Philippe Devillers, the noted French authority on Vietnam, said, 'So, everyone of today is disturbed by this spectacle we are seeing in Saigon. But when you are looking at a thousand years of history, you see that it has been like this all the time. The very fabric of Vietnamese history is made of this continuous fight between people. There are strong kings and strong lords who sometimes succeed in establishing a very strong authority over the turbulent aristocracy. " |
| The only thing wrong here is that there is no closing quotation mark on Devillers's words. |
| Page 125: | "There is a large U.S. air base in South Vietnam..." |
| This has to be Tan Son Nhut. I'm not sure why it isn't named in the book. |
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