Larry Berman is a Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Davis and Director of the UC Davis Washington Program. The author of numerous books on the Vietnam War, two of which have been translated into Vietnamese, Professor Berman also actively participated in advancing US-Vietnam relations.

He is the recent author of Perfect Spy: The Incredible Double Life of Pham Xuan An, A Time Magazine Reporter and Vietnamese Communist Agent, as well as three other popular books: No Peace, No Honor: Nixon, Kissinger and Betrayal in Vietnam (The Free Press, 2001), Lyndon Johnson War: The Road To Stalemate in Vietnam (W.W. Norton, 1989), and Planning A Tragedy: The Americanization of the War in Vietnam, (W.W. Norton, 1982).

Berman has been featured on C-Span’s Book TV, the History Channel’s Secrets of War, Bill Moyers “The Public Mind; David McCullough’s American Experience, and “Vietnam: A Television History. He received the Bernath Lecture Prize, given annually by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations to a scholar whose work has most contributed to our understanding of foreign relations. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies. He has been a Fellow-in-residence at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. and scholar in residence at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Center in Bellagio, Italy.

In May 6, 2005 Berman filed suit against the CIA, seeking access to president's daily briefs, or PDBs, during Lyndon B. Johnson's administration. He is represented by Thomas R. Burke and Duffy Carolan of the law firm Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, and by Meredith Fuchs, general counsel of the National Security Archive.

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