Stanley Karnow was a well-respected American Journalist and Historian whose book “In Our Image: America’s Empire in the Philippines” won him the coveted Pulitzer Prize for History. Karnow was a World War II veteran who graduated from Harvard and began his journalism career in the early 1950s. He is probably best known for his coverage of the Vietnam War.
Stanley Karnow died of congestive heart failure at the age of 87.
Books in order of publication:
| Southeast Asia | 1962 |
| Mao and China: A Legacy of Turmoil | 1972 |
| Vietnam: A History | 1983 |
| Vietnam: The War Nobody Won | 1983 |
| Vietnam: A History 1 | 1984 |
| Vietnam: A History 2 | 1984 |
| In Our Image: America’s Empire in the Philippines | 1989 |
| Asian Americans in Transition | 1992 |
| Dien Bien Phu: The Epic Battle America Forgot | 1994 |
| Paris in the Fifties | 1997 |
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