Hog's Exit - Jerry Daniels, the Hmong, and the CIA

Informationen zum Autor Gayle L. Morrison has worked with the Hmong community since 1977 in education, refugee services, private enterprise, and as an oral historian, researcher and writer. Her first book was Sky Is Falling: An Oral History of the CIA's Evacuation of the Hmong from Laos (1999). Based on the quality of her oral history research, she received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in 2003-2004. She lives in Santa Ana, California, and Missoula, Montana. Klappentext A portrait of the rowdy life and mysterious death of a former CIA officer, as told by those who knew him Zusammenfassung A former CIA officer led one hell of an interesting life! from Montana to Southeast Asia. Equally embraces a rowdy Western life! the brutal realities of ground war! and the beauty of tribal funeral rituals.

Product details

• Authors: Gayle L. Morrison, Gayle L Morrison, Gayle L. Morrison
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.04.2013
• EAN: 9780896727922
• ISBN: 978-0-89672-792-2
• No. of pages: 512
• Series: Modern Southeast Asia; Modern Southeast Asia
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies