Jonathan Esty
PhD student at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and historian specializing in American foreign policy and Southeast Asian history, featured to discuss Graham Greene's The Quiet American.
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Aug 21, 2025 • 60min
Graham Greene's Vietnam
Jonathan Esty, a PhD student at Johns Hopkins and historian of American foreign policy and Southeast Asia. He traces French colonial history in Indochina and the shift from guerrilla to conventional war. They explore Ho Chi Minh’s missed diplomatic chances, portrayals of imperial styles, and how Greene frames the novel as a murder mystery and moral allegory.
