A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (Paperback)

By Neil Sheehan
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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.

About the Author

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.

Praise for A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam…

"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

Product Details ISBN-10: 0679724141
ISBN-13: 9780679724148
Published: Vintage, 09/19/1989
Pages: 896
Language: English
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