Jacques Leslie's Books
Mar.01.2011
Former award-winning Vietnam and Cambodian War correspondent Jacques Leslie returns with his wife to Phnom Penh and Saigon for a reunion of journalists who covered the conflicts, and finds that the old war zones still have the power to evoke trauma.
Sep.01.2005
Dams have displaced between forty and eighty million people around the world, and have shifted so much weight that geophysicists believe they have slightly altered the speed of the earth's rotations, the tilt of its axis, and the shape of its gravitational field. In Deep Water, Jacques Leslie dramatizes their huge social and environmental consequences by depicting three people as...
Apr.01.1995
The Mark is at once an historical memoir, a coming-of-age story, and an exploration of the workings of journalism. In 1972, Leslie was a brash and ambitious 24-year-old with little experience in journalism and none in warfare. Through a trick of fate— his predecessor committed suicide— Leslie landed a job with the Los Angeles Times, and thus undertook a life-transforming experience...
About Jacques
Jacques Leslie began his writing career in 1972 as a Los Angeles Times war correspondent in Vietnam, where he became the first American journalist to enter Viet Cong territory. He spent six years as a correspondent, and was stationed successively in Saigon,...
Connections
Causes Jacques Leslie Supports
International Rivers
Resource Renewal Institute
Earth Island Institute