Word: vann
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...forget Vietnam is to forget the fallible capacity we share with all mankind," said Sheehan, whose noted book A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam chronicles U.S. mistakes in the Southeast Asian war through the story of an American officer fighting there...
...BRIGHT SHINING LIE by Neil Sheehan. Some 16 years of research went into this absorbing account of U.S. Army Lieut. Colonel John Paul Vann, a man as high- minded and flawed as the mission he undertook in Viet...
...BRIGHT SHINING LIE by Neil Sheehan (Random House; $24.95). In a riveting portrait, John Paul Vann, a top U.S. adviser in Viet Nam, emerges as a man who embodied the contradictions of his ill-fated mission: a courageous do-gooder with a dark streak of amorality...
...BRIGHT SHINING LIE by Neil Sheehan (Random House; $24.95). In a riveting portrait, John Paul Vann, a major architect of U.S. policy in Viet Nam, emerges as a man who embodied the contradictions of his ill-fated mission: a courageous do-gooder with a dark streak of amorality...
...then, Sheehan argues, "Vann had lost his compass." The trappings of power and his two young Vietnamese mistresses (each of whom was kept ignorant of the other for years) "satisfied him so completely that he could no longer look at ((the war)) as something separate from himself." Sheehan's conclusion is as sobering as it is powerful: Vann, like the U.S. leaders in Viet Nam he had once criticized so adroitly, was finally consumed by his own illusions...