Neil Sheehan has 3 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 2 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.2★ across 13 ratings. The most-rated is A Bright Shining Lie.
A Bright Shining Lie
Summary
Sheehan's tragic biography of John Paul Vann is also a sweeping history of America's seduction, entrapment and disillusionment in Vietnam.
©1989 Neil Sheehan (P)2009 Random House
The Pentagon Papers
Summary
"The WikiLeaks of its day" (Time) is as relevant as ever to present-day American politics.
Not fake news! The basis for the 2018 film The Post, The Pentagon Papers are a series of articles, documents, and studies examining the Johnson Administration's lies to the public about the extent of US involvement in the Vietnam War, bringing to light shocking conclusions about America's true role in the conflict.
Published by The New York Times in 1971, The Pentagon Papers riveted an already deeply divided nation with startling and disturbing revelations about the United States' involvement in Vietnam. The Washington Post called them "the most significant leaks of classified material in American history" and they remain relevant today as a reminder of the importance of a free press and First Amendment rights. The Pentagon Papers demonstrated that the government had systematically lied to both the public and to Congress.
This incomparable volume includes:
The Truman and Eisenhower Years: 1945-1960 by Fox Butterfield
Origins of the Insurgency in South Vietnam by Fox Butterfield
The Kennedy Years: 1961-1963 by Hedrick Smith
The Overthrow of Ngo Dinh Diem: May-November, 1963 by Hedrick Smith
The Covert War and Tonkin Gulf: February-August, 1964 by Neil Sheehan
The Consensus to Bomb North Vietnam: August, 1964 - February, 1965 by Neil Sheehan
The Launching of the Ground War: March-July, 1965 by Neil Sheehan
The Buildup: July, 1965 - September, 1966 by Fox Butterfield
Secretary McNamara's Disenchantment: October, 1966 - May, 1967 by Hedrick Smith
The Tet Offensive and the Turnaround by E. W. Kenworthy
Analysis and Comment
Court Records
Biographies of Key Figures
With a brand-new foreword by James L. Greenfield, this edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning story is sure to provoke discussion about free press and government deception, and shed some light on issues in the past and the present so that we can better understand and improve the future.
©2018 Neil Sheehan, E. W. Kenworthy, Fox Butterfield, Hedrick Smith (P)2018 Brilliance Audio, Inc., all rights reserved
A Fiery Peace in a Cold War
Summary
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. A Fiery Peace in a Cold War is a masterly work about Schriever's quests to prevent the Soviet Union from acquiring nuclear superiority, to penetrate and exploit space for America, and to build the first weapons meant to deter an atomic holocaust rather than to be fired in anger. Sheehan melds biography and history, politics and science, to create a sweeping narrative that transports the reader back and forth from individual drama to world stage. The narrative takes us from Schriever's boyhood in Texas as a six-year-old immigrant from Germany in 1917 through his apprenticeship in the open-cockpit biplanes of the Army Air Corps in the 1930s and his participation in battles against the Japanese in the South Pacific during the Second World War. On his return, he finds a new postwar bipolar universe dominated by the antagonism between the United States and the Soviet Union.
©2009 Neil Sheehan (P)2009 Random House