NCompass Live: 2015 One Book One Nebraska: Death Zones & Darling Spies

2015 One Book One NebraskaDeath Zones & Darling Spies: Seven Years of Vietnam War Reporting, by

Beverly Deepe Keever

One Book One Nebraska • Encourages Nebraskans across the state to read and discuss

one book, chosen from books written by Nebraska authors or that have a Nebraska theme or setting.

• Committee of the Nebraska Center for the Book selected this book from a list of titles nominated by Nebraskans from across the state.

• Sponsored by: – Nebraska Center for the Book– Humanities Nebraska – Nebraska Library Commission– University of Nebraska Press

One Book One Nebraska 2005 - 2015

Death Zones & Darling Spies: Seven Years of Vietnam War Reporting, by Beverly Deepe Keever

• Nonfiction story by Nebraska author.

• Pulitzer Prize nomination for her coverage of the besieged outpost of Khe Sanh in 1968.

• Longest-serving American correspondent covering the Vietnam War, America’s first televised war.

• Story of a farm girl from Nebraska in 1961 who finds herself halfway around the world as a war correspondent in Vietnam, trying to make sense of one of the nation’s bloodiest and bitterest wars.

Nebraskans Actively Engaged throughout 2015

• Book Club kits booked through March 2016• Check out News/Events: onebook.nebraska.gov

Join the Conversationwww.facebook.com/OneBookOneNebraska

Create a Local Program

• Publicity Toolkit: Digital Media Kit• Discussion Questions• Book Club Kits, Website and other resources, including:

Resources from Humanities Nebraska, including presenters and funding for programming:

"Beverly Deepe Keever: An Unconventional Woman for An Unconventional War" by Thomas Berg, PhD, Dept. of History, University of Nebraska-LincolnIn her book Death Zones & Darling Spies: Seven Years of Vietnam War Reporting Keever champions women as capable war correspondents and trounces the misconception that the American press "lost" the war. Berg discusses Keever's exploration of the war's poorly understood and under-appreciated earliest years, and how she demonstrates that the president and his advisers—by hubris, ignorance, and choice—missed significant opportunities to understand and fight the war. Berg is available to visit libraries. See http://humanitiesnebraska.org/speakers/book-a-speaker/

Get Involved

• Schedule a book club or book talk in the library

• Book a program with Humanities Nebraska speaker, local veterans, local journalists, etc.

• Local radio and tv talk shows• Screen a video of an author interview• Other ideas for progamming?

Join us at the November 14 Celebration of Nebraska Books

Celebration of Nebraska Books2:30 - 6:30 p.m.

1200 N Street, Lincoln1:30: Nebraska Center for the Book Annual Meeting2:45: Presentation by Thomas Berg, PhD, UNL Dept. of History, “Beverly Deepe Keever: An Unconventional Woman for An Unconventional War”

3:30: 2015 Jane Geske Award Presentation 4:00: 2015 Nebraska Book Awards

Readings by Winning Authors 5:30: 2016 One Book One Nebraska Announcement Awards Reception and Book Signing 6:30: Closing

Nominate a Title for 2017

For more information:

Mary Jo RyanCommunications CoordinatorNebraska Library Commission [email protected] http://onebook.nebraska.gov/2015/index.aspxwww.facebook.com/OneBookOneNebraska