Book Review: You Don’t Belong Here

This is another book I found out about on Book TV.  You Don’t Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War by journalist Elizabeth Becker is about three groundbreaking women journalists who covered the Vietnam War.  I was intrigued by this book because I don’t remember learning about any of these women in journalism school.

I even took a foreign correspondence class and the history of women journalists was very limited.  While I never wanted to cover war, I briefly had an interest in becoming a foreign correspondent when I was in college.  At that time, there weren’t many female correspondents who covered war, except Christiane Amanpour.

I ended up taking a slight detour into marketing communications for international NGOs.

So, it was really cool to read this.  If I had known about these women in school, I might have had a different career trajectory!