Neil Sheehan books

A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (1989)

Sobering, grim look at the incredible hubris that led to America becoming hopelessly (and, at times, helplessly) entwined in Vietnam. Sheehan, who was a reporter for UPI and, later, the New York Times, frames the book generally around a biography of a maverick Lt. Colonel in the Army: John Paul V...