Trip to Hanoi

I really liked Trip to Hanoi. I enjoyed the fact that is comes from a journalist/scholar. Sontag's writing style is beautiful. I think this work is much better than the fiction pieces that we have viewed/read thus far. She is very good at explaining the cultural misunderstandings between the Americans and Vietnamese. She really goes into depth on explaining how the Vietnamese viewed the Americans, and how she viewed them. This is a crucial element of Vietnam that we have not yet really seen. Hearts and Minds touches on this lightly, but Trip to Hanoi finishes the job. I've always thought it would be an awesome job to go to a foreign country that the US is actively engaged in war with. Especially as a journalist. Sontag's writing definitely makes me want to do something like that one day.