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A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
by Neil Sheehan
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Oversize Hardcover, Near Very Good/Near Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0394484479
- ISBN 13
- 9780394484471
- Seller
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Mulvane, Kansas, United States
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Content appears as new, unopened, unread & unblemished in black cloth covered boards with DJ displaying moderate surface/edge wear as shown. Only remarkable flaw is the upper right corner which appears to have been ground off by something. Only affects that corner and the same corner of DJ. Still a very good book.
This passionate, epic account of the Vietnam War centers on Lt Col John Paul Vann, whose story illuminates America's failures & disillusionment in SE Asia. A field adviser to the army when US involvement was just beginning, he quickly became appalled at the corruption of the S. Vietnamese regime, their incompetence in fighting the Communists & their brutal alienation of their own people. Finding his superiors too blinded by political lies to understand the war was being thrown away, he secretly briefed reporters on what was really happening. One of those reporters was Neil Sheehan.--Amazon (edited)
Neil Sheehan was a Vietnam War correspondent for United Press International & the NY Times & won a number of awards for reporting. In 1971 he obtained the Pentagon Papers, which brought the Times the Pulitzer gold medal for meritorious public service. A Bright Shining Lie won the National Book Award & the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction. He lives in Washington DC.
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Synopsis
One of the most acclaimed books of our time--the definitive Vietnam War exposé and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. When he came to Vietnam in 1962, Lieutenant Colonel John Paul Vann was the one clear-sighted participant in an enterprise riddled with arrogance and self-deception, a charismatic soldier who put his life and career on the line in an attempt to convince his superiors that the war should be fought another way. By the time he died in 1972, Vann had embraced the follies he once decried. He died believing that the war had been won. In this magisterial book, a monument of history and biography that was awarded the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction, a renowned journalist tells the story of John Vann -- “the one irreplaceable American in Vietnam” -- and of the tragedy that destroyed a country and squandered so much of America’s young manhood and resources.
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- Eve's Reads
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5946-111421
- Title
- A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
- Author
- Neil Sheehan
- Book Condition
- Used - Oversize Hardcover, Near Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Near Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Ed 2nd Prtg.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0394484479
- ISBN 13
- 9780394484471
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1988
- Pages
- 861
- Keywords
- Viet Nam War
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About Eve's Reads
I no longer am in a store. Retired and now I am selling a huge inventory of rare and very old books. Huge selection of Jewish books, due to liquidation of a Jewish Temple.
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