Neil Sheehan (1936–2021)
Autor/a de A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
Sobre l'autor
American journalist Cornelius Mahoney "Neil" Sheehan was born on October 27, 1936 in Holyoke, Massachusetts. In 1958 he received a B.A. from Harvard University. After serving in the U.S. Army from 1959 to 1962, Sheehan began working for the United Press International. Following a stint in the Tokyo mostra'n més bureau he worked as a bureau chief covering the Vietnam War for two years. Sheehan joined The New York Times in 1964 and reported from Indonesia and again Vietnam before becoming the Pentagon correspondent in 1966. He began reporting on the White House in 1968. In 1971 Sheehan published in The New York Times controversial details from the classified Pentagon Papers regarding the war in Vietnam. The government lost the resulting case, New York Times Co. v. United States, in which it had tried to halt these actions. Sheehan has written several bestselling books. He won a non-fiction Pulitzer Prize in 1989 for A Bright Shining Lie, considered to be one of the best books ever written about the Vietnam War. It also won the 1988 National Book Award for Nonfiction. He has also published The Arnheiter Affair, After the War Was Over, and A Fiery Peace in a Cold War. Neil Sheehan died in Washington, D. C. on January 7, 2021 at the age of 84. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Obres de Neil Sheehan
A Bright Shining Lie II 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Booknotes: America's Finest Authors on Reading, Writing, and the Power of Ideas (1997) — Col·laborador — 429 exemplars
Shaking the Foundations: 200 Years of Investigative Journalism in America (Nation Books) (2003) — Col·laborador — 45 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Altres noms
- Sheehan, Cornelius Mahoney (birth name)
- Data de naixement
- 1936-10-27
- Data de defunció
- 2021-01-07
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA
- Lloc de defunció
- Washington, D.C., USA
- Causa de la mort
- Parkinson’s disease
- Educació
- Harvard University (BA - Middle Eastern History)
Mount Hermon School - Professions
- journalist
- Relacions
- Sheehan, Susan (1) (wife)
- Organitzacions
- United Press International
The New York Times
United States Army
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 10
- També de
- 4
- Membres
- 3,292
- Popularitat
- #7,776
- Valoració
- 4.2
- Ressenyes
- 52
- ISBN
- 50
- Llengües
- 3
- Preferit
- 1