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...time is coming, if indeed it has not already arrived, when the Southerner will begin to ask himself whether there is really any longer very much point in calling himself a Southerner." So the great Southern historian C. Vann Woodward began his seminal essay on "The Search for Southern Identity" in 1958. Woodward then and now answers his own question with a qualified, though brilliantly emphatic, yes. I can't and don't. The South as South, a living, ever regenerating mythic land of distinctive personality, is no more. At most, it is an artifact lovingly preserved in the museums...
...Bright Shining Lie by Neil Sheehan (1988). A passionate and painstaking reconstruction of the strange career of John Paul Vann, a U.S. proconsul in Viet Nam, that casts new light on the ambiguous nature of that tragic...
...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...