Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
Jon Krakauer • 2009
Devastation Rating
war journalism Afghanistan military cover-up
Our Take
Pat Tillman gave up an NFL contract to enlist after 9/11 and was killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan — then made into a propaganda myth by an army that suppressed the truth from his family. Krakauer's account of the cover-up is enraging; his portrait of Tillman the actual person, rather than the symbol the government manufactured, is something rarer and better: a rescue from myth.
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