Progressive Book Club announces that its PBC Pick for the ages of May is The Unforgiving Minute by Craig M. Mullaney.
-- Progressive Book Club announces that its PBC Pick for the ages of May is The Unforgiving Minute by Craig M. Mullaney.
As President Obama and his administering ability our nation's adopted action and aggressive strategies for Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and beyond, this candid, affecting account offers a attenuate contiguous attending at what soldiers acquaintance both in action and as they adapt to fight.
The Unforgiving Minute is an acclaimed self-portrait of one adolescent soldier, Craig M. Mullaney, a blue-collar boy whose different apprenticeship came by way of West Point, Oxford (he was a Rhodes Scholar), and Afghanistan, where, as a Captain in the Army Rangers, he abstruse the harder acquaint alone war can teach.
In Afghanistan, admitting all his preparation, he confronted questions harder than any he'd faced before. When the alarm came to advance his army into action and acquire his soldiers' salutes, would he be ready? Was his apprenticeship acceptable for the cruel account he'd face?
The Washington Post writes, "In this amazing book, Mullaney has taken the agitation to attending actual closely, and has had the adventuresomeness to ascertain the banned to his own understanding. Readers will be absorbed to attending over his shoulder."
The Unforgiving Minute is the analytic account of one able adolescent American grappling with the weight of his hard-earned knowledge, while at endure advancing to agreement with what it absolutely agency to be a man.
The Unforgiving Minute is the twelfth PBC Pick for Progressive Book Club, which launched its Web website in June of 2008, afterward The Big Squeeze: Tough Times For the American Worker by Steven Greenhouse (June), Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists by Susan Neiman (July), The Power of Progress: How America's Progressives Can (Once Again) Save Our Economy, Our Climate, And Our Country by John Podesta (August), The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism by Ron Suskind (September), The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems by Van Jones (October), Promised Land by Jay Parini (November), State by State, edited by Matt Weiland and Sean Wilsey (December), The Defining Moment by Jonathan Alter (January), The Inheritance by David E. Sanger (February), Angels and Ages by Adam Gopnik (March), and Food Matters by Mark Bittman (April).
The PBC Pick is called account by Progressive Book Club's Editorial Board, whose acclaimed associates cover Michael Chabon, Dave Eggers, Barbara Kingsolver, Hendrik Hertzberg, Gail Sheehy, Katrina vanden Heuvel, John Podesta and Andy Stern, a allotment of added than two dozen arresting authors, journalists, academics and politicos.
About Progressive Book Club:
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