![]() ![]() Her next major publication was America Revised: History School Books in the Twentieth Century (Atlantic-Little, Brown, 1979), which traced the changes in how history was interpreted over the course of the century. FitzGerald continued to write about Vietnam and other Third World countries, but also turned more and more to America for her subjects. This book, her first monograph, was not only excerpted in The New Yorker, but won the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and the Bancroft Prize for history, to name a few of its honors. Returning to the United States in 1967, she spent the next five years writing Fire in the Lake: the Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam (Atlantic-Little, Brown, 1972). She wrote largely for the Herald Tribune Sunday Magazine until she travelled to Vietnam in 1966 and began covering the war for the New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, Vogue, and the Daily Telegraph. Frances FitzGerald began her more than four-decades-long career as a freelance journalist a couple of years after her graduation from Radcliffe College. ![]()
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