This is a book about Pat Tillman, the NFL player who left a lucrative multi-million dollar football contract to serve in the military and later was killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan. It is also about the way his death was portrayed in the media and how the circumstances around his death were concealed from [...]
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Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer
This book has gained in popularity within the last year when the movie version of it was released. I have to admit that I don’t usually watch movies of books that I like. I usually end up leaving the movie angry that they’ve changed something or it isn’t quite how I had pictured it in [...]
Under The Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
I had previously enjoyed Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, so when I saw Under the Banner of Heaven at the used book store I couldn’t help myself. This is the story of the murders of Brenda Lafferty and her baby, Erica that took place on July 24, 1984. The perpetrators of this murder were [...]