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The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth
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Like me, he read compulsively about war.
Phil Knight • Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
As Aeschylus, the illustrious Greek tragedian, noted in the fifth century B.C., “In war, truth is the first casualty.”
Jon Krakauer • Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
The reporting
Michael Moss • Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
Peril
“Putting it crudely, we really went to town,” Beightler reported. “To me, the loss of a single American life to save a building was unthinkable.” That’s a sentence worth reading twice. In Beightler’s mind, he was facing a trade-off—and not a particularly difficult one—between lives and architecture. But, as he well knew, those buildings were inhabi
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