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John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
Written 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.
Neil Sheehan
About Neil Sheehan
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Neil Sheehan is the author of A Bright Shining Lie, which won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction in 1989. 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.
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"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 ReviewAwards
WINNER 1989 Pulitzer PrizeWINNER 1988 National Book Awards
WINNER 1988 Sidney Hillman Prize
- A Bright Shining Lie by Neil Sheehan
- September 19, 1989
- History; History - Military - Vietnam War; Biography & Autobiography
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