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4.0

Neither Tillman's fame nor his idealism make his pointless, and utterly avoidable, death by friendly fire more tragic than any other, but Krakauer does a good job of making it emblematic of the misguided Global War on Terror, and the subsequent cover-up of the insulting mendacity of the officers and politicians who were trying so hard to sell that war on the American public.