"Newsweek book." Presents a group portrait of the author's boyhood friends growing up in a dangerous Chicago housing project.

Since 1984, Newsweek has been renowned for its vivid, in-depth special election coverage of the ordeal of running for the presidency. A year before the election

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The chronology and personal interviews present a variety of opinions of the Vietnam War.

“Like Richard Russo’s Straight Man this book has a lot to say about the humanities in American colleges and universities…. Very funny and also moving.”