Sam Korsmoe is an American writer who has lived and worked in Vietnam for nearly 20 years, and co-author of "Vietnam: Asia's Rising Star." With Sam Van, he is working on his fourth book, a series of profiles of Vietnamese and foreign entrepreneurs who have leveraged success from the Doi Moi (economic renovation) policies of the late 1980s.
To Lam, president of Vietnam and general secretary of the Vietnamese Communist Party (VCP), has just completed an official visit to the U.S., where he became the first party chief to address the United Nations. That meant that during his trip, Lam held two of the four most powerful political positions in Vietnam.
