Payback: Five Marines After Vietnam - Brossura

“Extraordinarily perceptive...a remarkably sensitive story of a generation.” (Stanley Karnow The New York Times Book Review)

“Klein rescues the grunt from anecdote and restores his dignity....Payback is, simply, one of the best accounts of how men respond to combat written about Vietnam or any other war...Klein’s reporting is remarkable....He brings each man to life, takes us into the battlefields between men and women, lets us see as we so rarely do the agonies and hard-won victories of growing up in working class America....He has overcome the many barriers that divided us, and has healed some of the wounds of the war.” (Esquire)

“The most eloquent work of nonfiction to emerge from Vietnam since Michael Herr’s Dispatches...Mr. Klein has a brisk, instinctive talent for illuminating American lives....we come to know the five Marines as intimately as characters in a novel....Indeed, Payback has that rare quality in a book—the visceral feel of real life, pinned down and clarified through words.” (Michiko Kakutani The New York Times)

“Some of the most vivid, harrowing, and emotionally honest writing to come out of Vietnam.” (The Washington Post Book World)

“It’s perhaps good to be reminded just how compassionate the most informed journalism can be....Some of Klein’s most interesting reporting concerns the effect on the wives of their husbands’ experiences; he shows how supportive some of them could be....Klein’s book eloquently demonstrates that what brings these men back into the world is their own efforts: their understanding and their care for one another, their interest in something outside themselves, their brave determination.” (Peter S. Prescott Newsweek)

“It’s a grim picture, painted in compelling strokes. Klein gets it all—their troubles with women, with employers, with the world—and the book must be a sober look in the mirror for the survivors. For the reader, it’s near-hypnotic.” (New York Daily News)

“A rich and important book that explains a great deal about a lot of people....Payback is the story of Joe Klein’s search for the survivors of Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, vintage 1967. It is a special book because it focuses in depth on the experience of five men...who were temporarily thrown together in an unpopular war.” (Chicago Sun-Times)

"[Payback] captures the sort of fine and private detail one ordinarily finds only in fiction." (People)

Joe Klein is an award-winning journalist and the author of seven books, including the #1 bestseller Primary Colors. His weekly Time column, “In the Arena,” covers US politics, elections, and foreign policy and has won two National Headliner Awards for best magazine column.