Douglas Pike
Douglas Pike | |
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Born | Douglas Eugene Pike July 27, 1924 |
Died | May 13, 2002 | (aged 77)
Nationality | American |
Education | University of North Dakota UC Berkeley (B.A.) American University (M.A.) MIT |
Occupation | Historian |
Spouse |
Myrna Johnson (m. 1956) |
Children | 3 |
Douglas Eugene Pike
Pike received a degree in journalism from the University of North Dakota as a bachelor's in international communications from the University of California, Berkeley and also a MA from American University in Washington D.C. (1958). Pike worked at the MIT Center for International Studies (1963–64) a year after graduate.[8]
He founded the journal Indochina Chronology, and has authored numerous books and articles on the war and the National Liberation Front.[6] His book PAVN: People's Army of Vietnam has been described as "one of the two or three most significant books to emerge from the war".[9]
Early life
Pike was born in
The Indochina Chronology
Pike founded The Indochina Chronology in 1982 to cover both historical and contemporary events in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos.[11]
Published works
- Douglas Pike, Viet Cong. The organization and techniques of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam (Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1966)
- Douglas Pike, War, Peace, and the Viet Cong (Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1969)
- Douglas Pike, History of Vietnamese Communism, 1925-1976 (Hoover Institution Press 1978)
- Douglas Pike, PAVN: People's Army of Vietnam (Presidio Press 1986)
References
- ^ Martin, Douglas (May 16, 2002). "Douglas Pike, Vietnam Expert, Dies at 77". The New York Times.
- ^ a b "Douglas E. Pike". Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. May 15, 2002.
- ^ Elaine Woo (May 17, 2002). "Douglas Pike, 77; Historian, Archivist of the Vietnam War". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved September 11, 2011.
- ^ Bishop, Donald (July 14, 2019). "A USIA legend: Douglas Pike, Vietnam, and counterinsurgency". academia.edu. Public Diplomacy Council Blog. Retrieved December 28, 2022.
- ^ Chanoff, David (April 30, 2000). "Flashback; Twenty-Five Years of Writing on the Vietnam War". The Washington Post.
- ^ a b Martin, Douglas (May 16, 2002). "Douglas Pike, Vietnam Expert, Dies at 77". New York Times.
- ^ Buckley, William F. (December 28, 1970). "On the right". Warsaw Times-Union.
- ^ "Biographic Data: Douglas Pike". Texas Tech University. Retrieved May 17, 2014.
- ^ Chanoff, David (April 20, 1986). "PAVN: People's Army of Vietnam". LA Times.
- ^ Woo, Elaine (May 17, 2002). "Douglas Pike, 77; Historian, Archivist of the Vietnam War". LA Times.
- ^ "The Indochina Chronology". The Vietnam Center & Archive.