Neil Sheehan's "A Bright Shining Lie" centers on John Paul Vann & America's involvement in this event
It received the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human 
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... "media centers") with a I read this book in 1988 while a member of the "Book of 
..... and 4) It's about the Vietnam War, a place and event I was told by the draft ..... 
America's involvement in Vietnam, couched in the story of John Paul Vann's life.