Then almost overnight Herr became a celebrity after
Esquire published his lone dispatch from Vietnam, "Hell Sucks," in August 1968.
The book has had detractors. Feminists generally have attacked the book because it allegedly promotes the technology of modern warfare as a proving ground for male validation. In an interview with Herr in the Los Angeles Times (15 April 1990) Paul Ciotti observes that "The doctrinaire right was offended by the way [Herr] ridiculed the platitudes of what he called the Saigon 'Dial-soapers,' the starched and self-deluded brass.... And leftists piled on, too, calling him a war freak enraptured by the ecstasy of battle." Herr's response to the detractors typifies the independent, noncompany spirit that informs Dispatches: "I was deeply thrilled....
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