Neil Sheehan's "A Bright Shining Lie" centers on John Paul Vann & America's involvement in this event
[DOC] [TLE] A Bright Shining Lie - Wikipedia [PAR] A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (1988) is a book 
by Neil Sheehan, a former New York Times reporter, about retired U.S. Army 
Lieutenant Colonel John Paul Vann and the United States' involvement in the 
Vietnam War.