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Neil was an outstanding
Jan 18, 2021,10:57 AM
writer who walked the extra mile to get his research right, and he practised the sort of journalism that got past the official deceit and made the reader a witness to history.
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Neil Sheehan 1936-2021
By: cshimokita : January 17th, 2021-18:52
"Once Upon a Distant War: David Halberstam, Neil Sheehan, Peter Arnett - Young War Correspondents and Their Early Vietnam Battles" (1995) by William Prochnau, one of the best books about the early days... I remember Neil Sheehan for "A Bright Shining Lie:...
Neil was an outstanding
By: penang1974 : January 18th, 2021-10:57
writer who walked the extra mile to get his research right, and he practised the sort of journalism that got past the official deceit and made the reader a witness to history.
Re: "A Bright Shining Lie..." (1988)
By: cshimokita : January 18th, 2021-13:42
Sheehan was awarded the 1988 National Book Award for Nonfiction and the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for the book. Casey .