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Capitals Uncovered, episode 9: The Vietnam Lesson

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Today Martin Sieff and Pelle Neroth Taylor are joined by top author James Bradley, who spent ten years living in Vietnam to understand the traumatic event that was the conflict from a highly unusual perspective: the Vietnamese themselves. In America, there is too much navel-gazing on why the Americans lost. Instead of how this resilient country of peasant farmers actually bested the superpower.

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James Bradley, author of Precious Freedom: A Novel, is the New York Times #1 bestselling author of Flags of Our Fathers, Flyboys, The Imperial Cruise, and The China Mirage. James lived in Vietnam for ten years to research and write his fifth book, Precious Freedom: A Novel of the Vietnam War.

Son of famed Iwo Jima Corpsman “Doc” Bradley, young James caddied for Coach Vince Lombardi of the Green Bay Packers, was President of his Class at the University of Notre Dame, and had self-funded his own travel around the globe—visiting twenty-two countries by the time he was twenty-two.

He danced with Tina Turner in Tokyo, was jailed in solitary confinement in an underground U.S. military cell in West Germany, founded his own multi-million-dollar corporation with offices in Manhattan and Tokyo, and produced shows with Bob Hope, Ella Fitzgerald, Jay Leno, Ray Charles, and Tony Bennett.
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