What Every Person Should Know About War

"Here is a noble, flawed effort to deepen our American understanding of war by making facts personal....Neither jingoistic nor pacifist, the book is about the moral authority of information, as it applies to the present and future nature of war....Hedges should be honored for trying to enter a realm beyond that Swiftian Laputa of young academics; beyond psychobabble about 'warriors'; beyond the timid bromides of politicians cowed by their pollsters; beyond the sentimentalities of left and right; beyond the docilities and compromises of his own profession....[However] The method of his book, its form (borrowed from a little-known book of the 1930's, Hedges explains), is too eccentric, too self-parodic, to be fully adequate to its purpose."Hedges, Chris is the author of 'What Every Person Should Know About War', published 2003 under ISBN 9780743255127 and ISBN 0743255127.