Neil Sheehan, Hedrick Smith, E W Kenworthy, Fox Butterfield

Broschiertes Buch

The Pentagon Papers

The Secret History of the Vietnam War

Beschreibung

This series of articles, documents and studies examine the Johnson Administration's management of public knowledge of the extent of US involvement in the Vietnam War, from Pulitzer Prize winning author of "A Bright Shining Lie" Neil Sheehan.

Autor

Neil Sheehan is the author of A Fiery Peace in a Cold War and A Bright Shining Lie, which won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction in 1989. He spent three years in Vietnam as a war correspondent for United Press International and The New York Times and won numerous awards for his reporting. In 1971, he obtained The Pentagon Papers, which brought the Times the Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for meritorious public service. Sheehan lives in Washington, DC. He is married to the writer Susan Sheehan. E. W. Kenworthy worked at The New York Times for nearly thirty years, in both New York and Washington. He passed away in January 1993. Fox Butterfield is an American journalist and author. His work has been read and acclaimed widely, having received both a Pulitzer Prize for his role in publishing The Pentagon Papers and a National Book Award for China: Alive in the Bitter Sea. Hedrick Smith is an American journalist, producer, and correspondent. During twenty-six years at The New York Times, he covered the civil rights struggle, the Vietnam War, and the Cold War, among many other monumental events in America history. James L. Greenfield was the US secretary of state for public affairs as well as an editor for The New York Times for more than twenty years. He directly contributed to the publication of The Pentagon Papers and later founded the Independent Journalism Foundation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Racehorse
• Seitenzahl: 848
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 149mm x 63mm
• Gewicht: 951g
• ISBN-13: 9781631582929
• ISBN-10: 1631582925
• Artikelnr.: 49361031