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A Good War Is Hard to Find: The Art of Violence in America by David Griffith

alexanderp's review against another edition

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challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

An engaging and personal read. I'm not entirely sure by the end of what Griffith was attempting to accomplish here, but for a debut book (I believe) it was much more well-formed than other nonfiction debuts I've seen.

The meditations here on violence have a strong post-9/11 tone (for obvious reasons) and a lot of that helped recontextualize that time period for me since I was only a pre-teen/teen during those years. What a wild period. 

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5.0

An amazing read the second time around, too. Perhaps even more so this time, as I have a much better concept of what's going on globally then I did when I read this five years ago.
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