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Film, Video Mark Bowden: 2018 National Book Festival

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Title

  • Mark Bowden: 2018 National Book Festival

Summary

  • Mark Bowden discusses "Huê 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam" at the 2018 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • National Book Festival (U.S.), sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2018-09-01.

Headings

  • -  Literature
  • -  National Book Festival, literature, non-fiction

Notes

  • -  Classification: Language and Literature.
  • -  Mark Bowden.
  • -  Recorded on 2018-09-01.
  • -  Kids, Families.
  • -  Teachers.
  • -  Mark Bowden is a national correspondent for The Atlantic and the author of several works of nonfiction, including "Black Hawk Down," about the 1993 U.S. raid in Mogadishu, Somalia; the book was adapted into a major motion picture. In "Killing Pablo," Bowden wrote about the notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar. Bowden has been a finalist for the National Book Award and has won the Science Writing Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His new work is "Huê 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam" (Atlantic Monthly), which details the fighting at Hue, one of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021692330

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and U.S National Book Festival. Mark Bowden:National Book Festival. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -09-01, 2018. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021692330/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & National Book Festival, U. S. (2018) Mark Bowden:National Book Festival. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -09-01. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021692330/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and U.S National Book Festival. Mark Bowden:National Book Festival. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -09-01, 2018. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021692330/>.