- Biography, Biography & Autobiography, History, National Book Award Winner
Chronicles the military career of Lt. Col. John Paul Vann, profiling his military and civilian roles in the Vietnam War.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and prestige.
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- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Neil Sheehan
- First published
- 1900
- Pages
- 861
- Publisher
- Random House, Vintage Books, Modern Library
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- vie, English
- ISBN
- 9780679603801
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“IT WAS a funeral to which they all came.”
Cornelius Mahoney "Neil" Sheehan (born October 27, 1936) is an American journalist. As a reporter for The New York Times in 1971, Sheehan obtained the classified Pentagon Papers from Daniel Ellsberg. His series of articles revealed a secret United States Department of Defense history of the Vietnam War and led to a US Supreme Court case, *New York Times Co. v. United States*, 403 U.S. 713 (1971), when the United States government failed to halt publication. He received a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award for his 1988 book *A Bright Shining Lie*, about the life of Lieutenant Colonel John Paul Vann and the United States involvement in the Vietnam War. **Source**: [Neil Sheehan](https://
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