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Helluva Job is Pulitzer Prize winner Lewis M. Simons's recollection
of his 50 years as a foreign correspondent, one whose powerful
stories contributed to transforming Asia from Vietnam War-era
basket case to a global boomtown that today rivals the United
States. Simons's investigative work led to the toppling of a
dictator in the Philippines. He covered the Tiananmen Square
massacre in China, bloody coups in Thailand, attempted genocide and
societal collapse in Cambodia, and economic advance, decline and
rebirth in Japan. He was expelled from India for his exclusive
reporting on Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's political misuse of the
armed forces. Breaking his own strict rule against becoming
personally involved with people whose stories he covered, he saved
the life of a dying teenaged Tibetan Buddhist monk. Simons molds
the narrative of his lengthy, action-packed career from foxhole mud
and backroom dirt. Layered with moments of tenderness and humor, as
his camp-following family often accompanies him, the result is a
masterful chronicle of war and murder; extreme poverty and
suffering alongside repellent wealth and indulgence; wholesale
larceny and ruling-class corruption-much of which escaped the
scrutiny of other journalists. Readers who appreciate real-life
historic drama will be enthralled.
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