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

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Author: SHEEHAN, NEIL
ISBN: 9780679724148

by SHEEHAN, NEIL

ISBN13:
9780679724148
ISBN10:
0679724141
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 1989-09-19
Publisher: 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.

The Funeral

(32)

BOOK I Going to War

(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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