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Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
by Jon Krakauer
The journey of this man - what made him unique and special and precious was beautifully rendered. He was the real deal. Pat Tillman clearly deserved more than what happened to him - killed in his very first firefight by his own comrades. But the overriding sense of this book is that the entire resulting coverup - not just of what happened to Pat Tillman, but the Abu Ghraib scandal, the Jessica Lynch fantasy, the Iraq invasion itself - was manufactured by the Bush regime to fulfill some mysterious machoistic desire. It was hard to read this, especially when my reading time is right before I go to sleep. I'd be so frustrated and keyed up that I found it hard to go to sleep afterwards.
Jon Krakauer's political leanings weren't very disguised, but he did his usual fantastic job of thoroughly researching his subject, factually fine-tuning the details, and spelling it out in simple but gripping language.
Jon Krakauer's political leanings weren't very disguised, but he did his usual fantastic job of thoroughly researching his subject, factually fine-tuning the details, and spelling it out in simple but gripping language.