Talk:Neil Sheehan

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Sheehan went to Harvard after working on his family's farm. He was not interested in writing and became a history major After graduating from Harvard, Sheehan joined the army and was sent to South Korea. He took a post as a military journalist to escape an army clerking job At age 25, Neil Sheehan was hired by UPI and assigned to their Tokyo office. He had only been working there for two weeks when he was suddenly promoted to Saigon bureau chief because he was the only person that could speak French After covering the war in Vietnam , Sheehan was assigned to the Pentagon and the White House during the Johnson and Nixon years. Vietnam dominated his newspaper career and his generation Neil Sheehan Born: October 27, 1936 - Holyoke, Massachusetts

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After graduating from Harvard University, Sheehan served in the army (1959-62). He went to Vietnam as bureau chief for United Press International, and as a correspondent for the New York Times from 1964 he reported on the Vietnam War from Saigon and later Washington, D.C. In 1971 he obtained the classified Pentagon Papers from Daniel Ellsberg; his story in the Times about the secret history of the war related in the documents resulted in strenuous government attempts to halt publication and became perhaps the most celebrated news story of the decade. Sheehan's first book, The Arnheiter Affair (1972), deals with the flawed captain of a naval vessel. He spent some 15 years on his best-known work, A Bright Shining Lie (1988); a biography of Col. John Paul Vann that illuminates much of the war's history, it won universal acclaim and received the Pulitzer Prize. It was followed by After the War Was Over (1992). His wife, Susan Sheehan, is the author of several admired studies of the lives of members of the American underclass, including Is There No Place on Earth for Me? (1983, Pulitzer Prize). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Robertkeller (talk • contribs) 22:41, 19 May 2003 (UTC)

Two Neils?

I believe I may have come across another Neil Sheehan who seems notable (havent really looked into that much yet). Evaunit♥666♥ 05:05, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

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