The judges felt the award should be given for this book because of its searching, thoroughly documented study of the events leading up to the Tonkin Bay resolution, for a devastating expose of the President’s role in persuading Congress to accept the official version of the incident which precipitated this national into the Vietnam war.
Anthony Austin was born in China, the son of White Russian parents, and educated in American and British Schools in Shanghai. He began a newspaper career as a reporter on the China Press and The Shanghai Evening Post and Mercury, the city’s English language newspapers published before World War II. At the end of the war, Mr. Austin joined the United Press in China where he stayed until 1949. In that year he emigrated to the United States and became a citizen He worked for the U.P. foreign desk in New York and in other positions until 1961 he has been a member of The New York Times Sunday Review Staff.
Citation: Ladislas Farago for “The Games of the Foxes,” published by David McKay Company.