The Book Prize Index

Fire and Rain: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Wars in Southeast Asia

Carolyn Woods Eisenberg

Offering a fresh perspective on the American war in Southeast Asia and superpower diplomacy during the Nixon-Kissinger years, this gripping work drawing on thousands of declassified documents and tapes to provide a startling account of the mpact of high-level decisions in Washington on people in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and the United States.

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Award History

1 wins · 1 total

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Bancroft PrizeMajor2024WinnerOfficial source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    • Nixon90%
    • Kissinger90%

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

    These suggestions did not meet the normal display threshold and are more likely to be wrong.

    • Southeast Asia60%
    • Laos45%
    • Cambodia45%

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    High-level decisions by Nixon and Kissinger during their superpower diplomacy in the Nixon-Kissinger years had a startling impact on people in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and the United States.

    Model confidence 62%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    70 / 100 academic

    Academic

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 72%.