Books by Neil Sheehan and Complete Book Reviews
Neil Sheehan, Author . Random $35 (560p) ISBN 978-0-679-42284-6
The military-industrial complex proves an unlikely arena for plucky individualism in this history of the men who built America's intercontinental ballistic missile program in the 1950s and '60s. Sheehan paints air force Gen. Bernard...
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Neil Sheehan, Author Vintage Books USA $9 (131p) ISBN 978-0-679-74507-5
One-time war correspondent Sheehan offers a brief, thoughtful account of Vietnam as he found it upon a return visit in the summer of 1989. (Aug.) *CHILDREN'S...
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Neil Sheehan, Author Random House (NY) $17 (131p) ISBN 978-0-679-41391-2
In the summer of 1989, when Sheehan returned to Vietnam for the first time since covering the war for the New York Times , he found that despite the doi moi or ``new way'' programs, the economy was in bad shape. He learned, for instance, that the...
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Neil Sheenan, Author, Neil Sheehan, Author Random House (NY) $24.95 (861p) ISBN 978-0-394-48447-1
Killed in a helicopter crash in Vietnam in 1972, controversial Lt. Col. John Paul Vann was perhaps the most outspoken army field adviser to criticize the way the war was being waged. Appalled by the South Vietnamese troops' unwillingness to fight...
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