Neil Sheehan Audio & Video

Host Harry Kreisler welcomes Pulitzer Prize winning author Neil Sheehan, who reflects on the Vietnam War through the prism of American soldier John Paul Vann. Series: Conversations with History.

The WikiLeaks of its day (Time) is as relevant as ever to present-day American politics.

Sheehan will explain the notion that weve gone from a Cold War with the former Soviet Union to what he terms a new Cold War with countries like North Korea and Iran.

From Neil Sheehan, author of the Pulitzer Prize - winning classic A Bright Shining Lie, comes this long-awaited, magnificent epic. Here is the never-before-told story of the nuclear arms race that changed history - and of the visionary American Air Force officer Bernard Schriever, who led the high-stakes effort.

Sheehan's tragic biography of John Paul Vann is also a sweeping history of America's seduction, entrapment and disillusionment in Vietnam....