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Books by Neil Sheehan et al.

The Pentagon Papers as published by Bantam Books in 1971 was based on reporting by Neil Sheehan and colleagues at the New York Times, with the classified text compiled by a team at the Defense Department under the direction of Daniel Ellsberg and others. Neil Sheehan was a Times correspondent who covered Vietnam and later wrote A Bright Shining Lie, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Army officer John Paul Vann that also won the National Book Award. Daniel Ellsberg was a defense analyst and RAND Corporation researcher who worked on the original study before leaking it to the press.