Volume 35, Number 18 · November 24, 1988
Heart of Darkness
By Murray Kempton
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
by Neil Sheehan
Random House, 861 pp., $24.95
'War,' said Saint-Exupéry, 'is the acceptance of death.' The force of that recognition beats again and again in Neil Sheehan's unforgettable narrative of his own growing up and John Paul Vann's wearing down in Vietnam.
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