LINCOLN, Neb. (Nov. 10, 2014)— Nebraskans have new required reading
material. The 2015 One Book One Nebraska selection is
Death
Zones and Darling Spies: Seven Years of Vietnam War Reporting
(University of Nebraska Press, May 2013) by Beverly Deepe Keever,
who was born and raised in Hebron, Neb.
Keever was the longest-serving American correspondent covering the
Vietnam War and earned a Pulitzer Prize nomination for reporting.
In
Death Zones and Darling Spies, Keever describes what it
was like for a farm girl from Nebraska to find herself halfway
around the world, trying to make sense of one of the nation’s
bloodiest and bitterest wars.
“Keever is an excellent storyteller. . . .
Death Zones & Darling Spies adds a woman’s view to the many
retrospectives on the Vietnam War—a war covered and perpetrated
mostly by men,” said Carolyn Johnsen in the Lincoln Journal Star.
Keever received her bachelor’s degree in journalism from the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln and her doctorate from the University
of Hawaii, where she is currently professor emerita.
“It was an honor to work with Bev Keever on
Death Zones and
Darling Spies, and I’m pleased this fine book will reach new
audiences around the state,” said Bridget Barry, UNP acquisitions
editor. “The University of Nebraska Press is proud of Bev and her
accomplishments.”
The One Book One Nebraska program promotes a culture of reading and
discussion in Nebraska by bringing the state together around one
great book by a Nebraska author. This year marks ten years of the
program. It is sponsored by Nebraska Center for the Book, Humanities
Nebraska, and Nebraska Library Commission.
Death Zones & Darling Spies: Seven Years of Vietnam War
Reporting by Beverly Deepe Keever was the committee’s choice
based on Keever’s compelling prose and ability to analyze complex
historical/political contexts to provide insight into America’s
military and financial involvement in Vietnam,” said Rebecca Faber,
chair of the One Book One Nebraska Selection Committee. “Her
Nebraska background provided a tie to the response of Americans at
home who were trying to comprehend a war like no other in which the
United States had been involved.”
Get your copy of
Death Zones and Darling Spies from the
University of Nebraska Press
or wherever books are sold.
For more information about UNP, visit
nebraskapress.unl.edu.
For more information about One Book One Nebraska, visit
onebook.nebraska.gov.
About the University of Nebraska Press:
Founded in 1941, the University of Nebraska Press is a nonprofit
scholarly and general interest press that publishes 170 new and
reprint titles annually under the Nebraska, Bison Books, and Potomac
Books imprints, and in partnership with the Jewish Publication
Society, along with 30 journals. As the largest and most diversified
university press between Chicago and California, with 3,000 books in
print, the University of Nebraska Press is best known for publishing
works in Native studies, history, sports, anthropology and
geography, American studies and cultural criticism, and creative
works. For more information, visit
nebraskapress.unl.edu.
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