this week on q and a, our guest is neil sheehan. his new book a fiery peace in the cold war is on the cold war. we also look back at mr. sheehan s book a bright shining lie, america and vietnam which won the pulitzer prize in 19 yin. neil sheehan, it was 21 years ago this month that you started this network on its trek to look at books and to do this interview show every sunday night at 8:00 and 11:00 but i want to show you a little moment from 21 years ago. what do you do want to do next? i don t really know. i want to help promote books. and then the only specific thing i have in mind that i would like to do is to go back to vietnam. see what s happened. write about it. i m not worried about it. i might go back to daily journalism. i don t really know. i stayed busy all my life and the one thing i ve been taught is if you want to work, just find something to do. you learn as a newspaper man you go from story to story. in this case i went from book to book in 15
this week on q & a our guest is neil sheehan. his new book is on the nuclear arms race told through the life of general bernard sleefer dshriever who led the research. we also look back at a bright shining lie, america in vietnam. it won the pullitiesier prize in 1989. you started the trek to look at books and this interview show every sunday night at 8:00 and 11:00. i want to show you a little moment from 21 years ago. what do you want to do next? i don t really know. i want to help promote the book because that s a necessity. and then the only specific thing i have in mind that i would like to do is to go back to vietnam, see what s happened to the country and write about it. then what i will do, i don t know. i m not worried about it. i might go back to daily journalism. don t know. i ve stayed busy all my life. and the one thing that i ve been taught is that if you want to work, you ll find plenty to do. so i m sure i ll find something. you learn as a newspape