Veteran journalist Stanley Karnow dies

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Stanley Karnow, whose book, “In Our Image: America’s Empire in the Philippines,” won the 1990 Pulitzer Prize in history, is dead. He was 87. “In Our Image” was acknowledged as the best popular history of American involvement in the Philippines, summarizing 3 centuries of the two countries’ relations. Karnow had vivid portraits of Spanish, American and Filipino leaders who shaped the only colony of the US. Born in New York, he headed for Europe a week after graduating from Harvard to become a foreign correspondent. He also covered the Vietnam War for Time Magazine and later for the Saturday Evening Post, The Washington Post, and NBC News. His other book, “Vietnam: A History” was praised for its insight and comprehensiveness. Karnow died of congestive heart failure in his Potomac home.

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