Trip To Hanoi

I really enjoyed Trip to Hanoi very much, In my opinion it was the equivolence to Hearts and Minds but in book form. I really enjoyed how anti-american the author initially begins but through his down writing comes to a conclusion at the end that he is part of, and loves his country though he does not necessarily agree with what they are doing. I specifically enjoyed how he used rhetoric to separate himself by say America then putting "I" in parenthesis or vice versa, but by the end he was quoting the phrase "I" and "we" as if he felt a part of the country again. This story, however, goes much more in depth than just his separation from America. It really puts into perspective the mentality of the Vietnamese people through the eyes of an American. The author can not truly ever know what the Vietnamese are thinking, yet he makes very crisp conclusions based on his observations and interviews with the natives.