Introducing Lawyer Lam Le Trinh’s book:

"Awakening: The Nationalists & the Communists"

(By Nguyen Ba Can, Former Prime Minister of the Republic of Vietnam)

Mr. Nguyen Ba Can - a Former Prime Minister of the Republic of Vietnam -, recently introduced Lawyer Lam Le Trinh’s book entitled: "Awakening: The Nationalists & the Communists", in San Jose, California. This is a thick book with 700 pages and 3 Parts, as follows:

* Part I is the most important part: "Writings on Vietnam", which includes 47 articles in 4 Chapters:

- Chapter 1: History and Politics (27 articles).

- Chapter 2: Economics and Culture (8 articles)

- Chapter 3: Community, Youth and Communications

- Chapter 4: Interviews, Book Comments, Memoirs

Part I totals 503 pages.

* Part II includes 16 articles, with 172 pages: "Writings on Today’s World"

* Part III is the indexes, with 9 articles and 27 pages.

There are also many pictures in the books.

What are the major points of the book?

- The author - Dr. Lam Le Trinh - successfully pointed out the disastrous mistakes in leadership of both the Nationalist and Communist sides, and South VN’s allies (France and the U.S.) which led to 30 years of savage wars in VN. The leaning to foreign power(s) and ism of the North and the dependence on foreign powers of the South brought about blood and tears causing disastrous effects to generations of VN. The author warned that we have to awaken to return to our origin to survive and mobilize the people’s immense strength to build the nation.

- The major lesson that the author would like to emphasize is we all have to learn from the history and the chances that we missed in the past in order to awaken and return to our origin, to build a democratic regime: OF, BY and FOR the people.

Mr. Nguyen Ba Can said that this is a valuable book in politics and history of VN, which helps us understand the lessons of history and the struggle of the people that keep on now against an unwanted regime, based on a foreign ism already in the trash bin.