Neil Sheehan 1936-2021
"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
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)
Sheehan was awarded the 1988 National Book Award for Nonfiction and the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for the book. Casey .
