| 词条 | A Bright Shining Lie |
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| name = | image = A Bright And Shining Lie.JPG | alt = Front cover of unknown edition | caption = Front cover of unknown edition | author = Neil Sheehan | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = | language = English | subject = Vietnam War | genre = | published = 1988 (Vintage Books) | media_type = | pages = | isbn = | oclc = | dewey = | congress = | preceded_by = | followed_by = }} 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 killed in action U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel John Paul Vann and the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War. Sheehan was awarded the 1988 National Book Award for Nonfiction[1] and the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction[2] for the book. It was adapted as a film of the same name released by HBO in 1998, starring Bill Paxton and Amy Madigan. SummaryJohn Paul Vann became an adviser to the Saigon regime in the early 1960s. He was an ardent critic of how the war was fought, both on the part of the Saigon regime, which he viewed as corrupt and incompetent, and, as time went by, increasingly, on the part of the U.S. military. In particular, he was critical of the U.S. military command, especially under William Westmoreland, and its inability to adapt to the fact that it was facing a popular guerrilla movement while backing a corrupt regime. He argued that many of the tactics employed (for example the strategic hamlet relocation) further alienated the population and thus were counterproductive to U.S. objectives. He was often unable to influence the military command but used the Saigon press corps including Sheehan, David Halberstam and Malcolm Browne to disseminate his views. The volume begins with a prologue giving an account of Vann's funeral on June 16, 1972, following his death in a helicopter crash in Vietnam. The author, Sheehan, a personal friend, was present. The subsequent account is divided into seven "books" detailing Vann's career in Vietnam and America's involvement in the conflict.
Sheehan describes Vann as having been in charge of more American troops in direct combat than any other civilian (which Vann, by then retired from the Army, technically was) in US history. Reception and influenceAccording to The New York Times Book Review: "If there is one book that captures the Vietnam war in the sheer Homeric scale of its passion and folly, this book is it. Neil Sheehan orchestrates a great fugue evoking all the elements of the war".[3] The New York Review of Books proclaimed it "An unforgettable narrative, a chronicle grand enough to suit the crash and clangors of whole armies. A Bright Shining Lie is a very great piece of work; its rewards are aesthetic and...almost spiritual".[4] It received the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights 1989 Book Award given annually to a book that "most faithfully and forcefully reflects Robert Kennedy's purposes – his concern for the poor and the powerless, his struggle for honest and even-handed justice, his conviction that a decent society must assure all young people a fair chance, and his faith that a free democracy can act to remedy disparities of power and opportunity."[5] In September, 1988, Sheehan was interviewed by Brian Lamb about A Bright Shining Lie. The discussion was aired on C-SPAN in five 30-minute segments, and was the basis for the later C-SPAN show Booknotes.[6] References1. ^[https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-1988 "National Book Awards – 1988"]. National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-02-20. 2. ^"General Nonfiction". Past winners & finalists by category. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2012-03-25. 3. ^[https://www.nytimes.com/1988/09/25/books/the-man-who-was-the-war.html New York Times Book Review: The Man Who Was the War] 4. ^New York Review of Books: Heart of Darkness 5. ^{{cite web|url=http://rfkcenter.org/book-award?lang=en |title=Book Award |work=Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150619072045/http://rfkcenter.org/book-award?lang=en |archivedate=2015-06-19 }} 6. ^{{Cite web |url=http://www.pophistorydig.com/?p=11852 |title="Brian's Song" C-SPAN |work=pophistorydig.com}} Bibliography
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