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Pulitzer Prize winner about America's biggest foreign policy blunder. Painful for me to read about the stupidty of my government's decisions. I can laugh at the small stuff, but when it comes to human lives, not a laughing matter. John Paul Vann was one of the first american advisors that went to the country in the early 60's to "help them" resist the communists. We all know how that worked out. John was in the country on and off for about 10 years before his chopper went down in '72 and he was killed. He was buried in Arlington National Cemetary with full military honors. The book is not so much about him as our involvement in that conflict. Title refers to the lies told by the military to the policy makers that kept us there. Specifically that we were winning, when that was never the case. I find it hard to blame the man at the top (Johnson/Nixon), when they are being fed lies from the people at the bottom. George Bush anyone?

Grade - A

next up - Washington D.C. by Gore Vidal