A Bright Shining Lie
John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
By Neil Sheehan
(Vintage, Paperback, 9780679724148, 896pp.)
Publication Date: September 19, 1989
Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Hardcover
Categories: Military, Military - United States, Military - Vietnam War
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Sheehan's tragic biography of John Paul Vann is also a sweeping history of America's seduction, entrapment and disillusionment in Vietnam.
Neil Sheehan is the author of A Fiery Peace in a Cold War. He spent three years in Vietnam as a war correspondent for United Press International and The New York Times and won numerous awards for his reporting. In 1971 he obtained the Pentagon Papers, which brought the Times the Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for meritorious public service. Sheehan lives in Washington, D.C. He is married to the writer Susan Sheehan.
"If there is one book that captures the Vietnam war in the sheer Homeric scale of its passion and folly, this is it."--The New York Times Book Review
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