About the Editors and Contributors Martin J. Manning is a librarian and archivist in the Bureau of International Informa- tion Programs, U.S. Department of State, where he maintains its public diplomacy archives. He has degrees from Boston College and from Catholic University. He has written and lectured on U.S. propaganda (public diplomacy) and popular culture. Manning is a contributor to reference books and encyclopedias and he is the author of the Historical Dictionary of American Propaganda (Greenwood, 2004). He has two daughters. Clarence R. Wyatt is the Claude D. Pottinger Professor of History at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. He received his B.A. in history and English at Centre College, and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in U.S. history at the University of Kentucky, where he stud- ied under the eminent scholar of American diplomacy, George C. Herring. Wyatt’s par- ticular area of scholarly interest is 20th-century U.S. political, diplomatic, and cultural history, especially as related to American involvement in Vietnam. His doctoral dis- sertation was published by W.W. Norton as Paper Soldiers: The American Press and the Vietnam War. He has written and spoken extensively about various aspects of American involvement in Vietnam, and comments regularly regarding the role of the news media in American politics and military affairs. Wyatt was a member of one of the first groups of American academics to travel to Vietnam as the country began to re-open to the world, participating in a trip sponsored by the Vietnamese Ministry of Education in 1992. Since that time, Wyatt has traveled frequently to Vietnam and Cambodia, includ- ing taking groups of students on regular study-abroad trips. In addition to his academic appointment, Wyatt also serves as special assistant to the president and chief planning officer at Centre. He also serves as the dean of the Centre College campus of Kentucky’s Governor’s Scholars Program and as mentor for the Brown Fellows Program. He is mar- ried to Lobie Stone, and has two sons. xxi
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