Diana Johnstone is an astute and longtime analyst on global affairs, whose highly readable memoir is peppered with insights on the world events she experienced, reported on and sometimes participated in--from the Viet Nam War to today's Yellow Vest movement in France. This mixture of autobiography and history encompasses both the personal evolution of a spirited American journalist and her keen insights into the major events of the last half century whose rectitude and indeed legality she most frequently decried. Circle in the Darkness revisits many of its key events, adding insights with the benefit of hindsight. It covers: -early anti-war protests against the Viet Nam War in the United States, -student days in Yugoslavia, -life in the international press milieu in Germany during the Cold War, -May '68 in France, -the turbulent politics of Italy in the 1970s, -the impact on Europe of
