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Authors: Neil Sheehan
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A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (147 page)
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A
BOUT THE
A
UTHORN
EIL
S
HEEHAN
was born in Holyoke, Massachusetts, in 1936. He majored in history at Harvard and graduated cum laude in 1958. He then enlisted in the U.S. Army, was an Army journalist in Korea and Japan, and first went to Vietnam in 1962 to cover the war for United Press International. In 1964 he became a reporter for
The New York Times
, where he won a number of awards. After working on the newspaper’s metropolitan staff and as its correspondent in Indonesia, he returned to Vietnam in 1965.In 1966, he was transferred to the Washington bureau of the
Times
, where he served successively as Pentagon correspondent, White House correspondent, and investigative reporter assigned to political, military, and diplomatic affairs. In 1971, he obtained the Pentagon Papers, which brought the
Times
the Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for meritorious public service.Also the author of
The Arnheiter Affair, A Bright Shining Lie
, which won the National Book Award as well as the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction, and
A Fiery Peace in a Cold War
, Neil Sheehan is married to Susan Sheehan, the writer. They live in Washington, D.C.
2009 Modern Library Edition
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This work was originally published in the United States in hardcover
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a division of Random House, Inc., in 1988 and subsequently in trade paperback
by Vintage Books, an imprint of The Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group,
a division of Random House, Inc., in
1989
.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to Sanga Music Inc. c/o The Royalty Network, Inc.,
for permission to reprint excerpts from “Where Have All the Flowers Gone”
by Pete Seeger, copyright © 1961 (Renewed) by Sanga Music Inc. Reprinted
by permission of Sanga Music Inc. c/o The Royalty Network, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Sheehan, Neil.
A bright shining lie.
eISBN: 978-0-679-60380-1
1. Vietnamese Conflict, 1961–1975—United States.
2. Vann, John Paul. 3. Soldiers—United States—
Biography. 4. United States. Army—Officers—Biography.
I. Title.
DS
558.847 1988 959-704′33′73 87-43330
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