A Bright Shining Lie John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (Pulitzer Prize Winner),9780679724148

A Bright Shining Lie John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

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ISBN13: 9780679724148
ISBN10: 0679724141
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1989-09-19
Publisher(s): Vintage
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Summary

Sheehan's tragic biography of John Paul Vann is also a sweeping history of America's seduction, entrapment and disillusionment in Vietnam.

Author Biography

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.


From the Hardcover edition.

Table of Contents

The Funeral 3(32)
BOOK I Going to War
35(92)
BOOK II Antecedents to a Confrontation
127(74)
BOOK III The Battle of Ap Bac
201(66)
BOOK IV Taking On the System
267(120)
BOOK V Antecedents to the Man
387(112)
BOOK VI A Second Time Around
499(88)
BOOK VII John Vann Stays
587(204)
Acknowledgments 791(4)
Interviews 795(6)
Documents 801(2)
Source Notes 803(18)
Bibliography 821(14)
Index 835

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