1989 Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction Winner
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
Neil Sheehan
Outspoken, professional and fearless, Lt. Col. John Paul Vann went to Vietnam in 1962, full of confidence in America’s might and right to prevail. He was soon appalled by the South Vietnamese troops’ unwillingness to fight, by their random slaughter of civ…