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Army "An intriguing story of clandestine activities during the Vietnam War. Berman, one of America’s best historians, breaks incredible new ground in these pages. An important new addition to our understanding of the Cold War battles in Southeast Asia. A must-read."

- Douglas Brinkley, professor of history, Tulane University
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Title: American author's spy story evades the wrath of Vietnamese censors
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Title: "Perfect Spy: The Incredible Double Life of Pham Xuan An Time Magazine Reporter and Vietnamese Communist Agent."
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Title: Perfect Spy
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Title: The Craft of Politics
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Title: Perfect Spy: The Incredible Double Life of Pham Xuan An, Time Magazine Reporter and Vietnamese Communist Agent
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Title: No Sherlock: NPR Anchor Asks If Viet Cong Spy at Time Magazine Cost American Lives
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Title: A Perfect Spy--for Which Side? Review of the new book about Pham Xuan An by Bui Van Phu
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Title: Update on Perfect Spy by Larry Berman--to be published in Vietnamese by the Vietnam News Agency. Four more dissidents sentenced in Hanoi.
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Title: Perfect Spy
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Title: An Establishment Guy
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Title: Larry Berman’s The Perfect Spy, Pham Xuan An - Review
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Title: Perfect Spy tells an incredible tale
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Title: The Perfect Spy
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Title: CAMBODIA PSYOP
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Title: Establishment Poli-Sci Professor alleges that William Colby Bud was a commie spy
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Title: And the war drags on
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Title: And the war drags on
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Title: A spy for Hanoi working for US news organizations
 
   
 

Title: Journal of Military History
Publisher: Project Muse Scholarly journals online
Date: N/A
Language: English

Title: The Intelligence Officer's Bookshelf
Publisher: www.cia.gov
Date: December 2007
Language: English

   
 

Title: Foreign Affairs review
Publisher: Foreign Affairs
Date: December 2007
Language: English

Title: Larry Berman's The Perfect Spy, Pham Xuan An - Review
Publisher: www.ospreymedia.com
Date: August 13, 2007
Language: English

   
 

Title: Perfect Spy : the Incredible Double Life of Pham Xuan An, Time Magazine Reporter and Vietnamese Communist Agent
Publisher: Time Magazine
Date: n/a
Language: English

Title: Signings
Publisher: www.viettribune.com
Date: December 2007
Language: Vietnamese

   
 

Title: Hollywood "ngam diep vien hoa Pham Xuan An
Publisher: Viet Bao
Date: September 8,2007
Language: Vietnamese

Title: Three Books About Spies
Publisher: www.csmonitor.com
Date: September 2007
Language: English

   
  Vietam

Title: Book on legendary agent to hit shelves
Publisher: Vietnam Net
Date: September 9, 2007
Language: English

Title: Ra mat cuon sach moi ve Thieu tuong Pham Xuan An
Publisher: www.hanoimoi.com
Date: September 13, 2007
Language: Vietnamese

   
  US Embassy

Title: Historian and Author Larry Berman Discusses "Perfect Spy"
Publisher: www.usembassy.state.gov
Date: Fall 2007
Language: English

Title: Hollywood "ngam" Diep vien hoan hao Pham Xuan An
Publisher: www.tuoitre.com
Date: September 8, 2007
Language: Vietnamese

   
  Vietam

Title: Culture Vulture
Publisher: Vietnam News
Date: September 13, 2007
Language: English

Title: In from the cold
Publisher: www.viet-studies.info
Date: September 7, 2007
Language: English

   
  Vietam

Title: Dr. Erich Helfert reviews Perfect Spy
Publisher: San Francisco Books & Travel
Date: Fall 2007
Language: English

Title: Diep vien "Thanh that va can dam"
Publisher: www.bcc.co.uk
Date: September 12,2007
Language: Vietnamese

   
  Vietam

Title: The Perfect Spy
Publisher: www.vnafmanan.com
Date: n/a
Language: English

Title: The Virtue of Resistance: A Look at Ray Ginger’s The Bending Cross and Larry Berman’s The Perfect Spy
Publisher: www.dissidentvoice.com
Date: August 20,2007
Language: English

   
  Vietam

Title: Pham Xuan Ann Van Hoan Toan Bi An
Publisher: www.vietTribune.com
Date: August 20, 2007
Language: English

Nguoi Viet

Title: An American biographer explores the life of a North Vietnamese spy
Publisher: www.asiamediainc.com
Date: n/a
Language: English

   
  Vietam

Title: Perfect Spy: The Incredible Double Life of Pham Xuan An Time Magazine Reporter and Vietnamese Communist Agent
Publisher: www.verywellsaid.com
Date: n/a
Language: English

Book TV

Title: After Words Book TV
Publisher: www.booktv.org
Date: n/a
Language: English

   
  Vietam

Title: Perfect Spy: The Incredible Double Life of Pham Xuan An, Time Magazine Reporter and Vietnamese Communist Agent
Publisher: www.princeton.edu
Date: n/a
Language: English

UCD

Title: Spotlight: Summer Reading
Publisher: www.ucdavis.edu
Date: n/a
Language: English

   
  Vietam

Title: Washington Decoded Book Review
Publisher: www.washingtondecoded.com
Date: August 11, 2007
Language: English

Nguoi Viet

Title: Political Affairs Book Review
Publisher: www.politicalaffairs.com
Date: August 13, 2007
Language: English

   
  Vietam

Title: His book on Vietnamese spy criticized by conservative website
Publisher: History New Network
Date: May 29, 2007
Language: English

Washingtontimes

Title: Fighting radicals, and a reporter-spy
Publisher: www.washingtontimes.com
Date: August 12, 2007
Language: English

   
  Vietam

Title: Pham Xuan An
Publisher: www.vietamreview.net
Date: n/a
Language: English

Nguoi Viet

Title: Gioi Thieu "Perfect Spy" coa Larry Berman
Publisher: www.ocregister.com
Date: July 1, 2007
Language: Vietnamese

   
  VVA

Title: Who Was Pham Xuan An?
Publisher: www.vva.org by John Prados
Date: June, 2007
Language: English

OC Register

Title: Perfect Spy
Publisher: www.ocregister.com
Date: May 8, 2007
Language: English

   
  Real Express

Title: Spy Games: Larry Berman
Publisher: www.readexpress.com
Date: July 9, 2007
Language: English

Berman Highlander

Title: Perfect Spy
Publisher: www.frontpagemag.com
Date: July 12, 2007
Language: English

   
  Voice of American Broadcast

Title: VNA Publishing House joins hands with US partners
Publisher: Quan Doi Nhan Dan
Date: July 17, 2007
Language: English

Berman Highlander

Title: Pham Xuan An, vua lam bao vua lam gian diep
Publisher: Nguoi Viet
Date: June 27, 2007
Language: Vietnamese

   
  Voice of American Broadcast

Title: Voice of American Broadcast
Publisher: www.voanews.com/
Date: May 25, 2007
Language: English

Berman Highlander

Title: UC Riverside Highlander
Publisher: Highlander
Date: May 15, 2007
Language: English and Vietnamese

   
  Culture-Sports Weekly

Title: The Van Hoa-The Thao (Culture-Sports Weekly)
Publisher: www.radiovncr.com
Date: May 19, 2007
Language: English & Vietnamese

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Title: Perfect Spy on Little Saigon Radio
File Type: MP3 (Size: 10,577 KB)
Date: May 23, 2007
Language: English and Vietnamese

   
  Radio VNCR

Title: Phong van GS Larry Berman Phan 2
Publisher: www.radiovncr.com
Date: May 19, 2007
Language: Vietnamese

Sacbee

Title: UC Davis author tells story of spy in our midst
Publisher: www.sacbee.com
Date: May 14, 2007
Language: English

 
  Thanhnien

Title: The perfect spy. A local historian immortalizes an affable Vietnamese double agent who once worked as a Sacramento journalist
Publisher: www.newsreview.com
Date: May 4, 2007
Language: English

Thanhnien 

Title: NPR : The Story of Vietnams Perfect Spy
Publisher: NPR Saturday Edition
Date: April 28, 2007
Language: English

 
  Thanhnien

Title: Library Journal Review PDF icon
Publisher: Library Journal
Date: April 15, 2007
Language: English

Thanhnien

Title: Sach noi ve Tuong Pham Xuan An lan dau tien duoc xuat ban tai My
Publisher: www2.thanhnien.com.vn
Date: April 17, 2007
Language: Vietnamese

 
  Kirkus PDF

Title: Publishers Weekly PDF icon
Publisher: www.publishersweekly.com
Date: March 26, 2007
Size: 39 KB
Language: English

Kirkus PDF

Title: Kirkus Review
Publisher: www.kirkusreviews.com
Date: 2007
Language: English

 
 
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Title: A Perfect Spy - For Which Side?
Publisher: www.talawas.org
Date: April 7, 2007
Language: Vietnam PDF icon English PDF icon
Credit: Translation courtesy of Merle Pribbinow

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Title: Book Preview: Perfect Spy by Larry Berman
Publisher: www.nhamagazine.com
Date: 2007
Language: English

 
 
  video icon

Title: "The Perfect Spy" interview (4:25)
Publisher: www.theworld.org
Date: September 21, 2006
Language: English

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Title: Vietnam TV makes documentary on famous spy
Publisher: www.Thanhniemnews.com
Date: September 17, 2006
Language: English

 
 
  video icon

Title: Vietnamese Here and Abroad Applaud Scholar's View of Vietnam War
Publisher: www.pacificnews.org
Date: November 27, 2004
Language: English

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Title: Foreign media write about Pham Xuan An
Publisher: www.vietnamnet.vn
Date: September 25, 2006
Language: English

 
 
  video icon

Title: Pham Xuan An, 79; Reporter for Time, Spy for Viet Cong
Publisher: www.washingtonpost.com
Date: September 21, 2006
Language: English

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Title: Film maker peers into life of legendary spy
Publisher: www.vietq.wordpress.com
Date: October 9, 2006
Language: English

 
   
  Newspaper icon

Title: Co mot giao su My ai mo tuong Pham Xuan An PDF icon
Publisher: Doi Song - Xa Hoi
Date: n/a
Size: 606 KB
Language: Vietnamese

Newspaper icon

Title: Nhung phut cuoi cua Thieu tuong Pham Xuan An PDF icon
Publisher: Sai Gon Giai Phong
Date: September 9, 2006
Size: 667 KB
Language: Vietnamese

 
 
  video icon

Title: Nhan xet cua su gia Larry Berman ve cuoc chien Viet Nam
Publisher: www.rfa.org
Date: May 7, 2006
Language: Vietnamese

   
 
 
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