| Description |
xxxii, 558 p. (large print) : maps ; 24 cm. |
| Édition |
1st large print ed. |
| Note locale |
BIO 2017-12-14 |
| Bibliographie |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [505]-531) and index. |
| Résumé |
Pat Tillman walked away from his $3.6 million NFL contract in May 2002 to enlist in the United States Army. Deeply troubled by 9/11, he felt a strong moral obligation to join the fight against al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Two years later, he died on a desolate hillside in Afghanistan. Though obvious to most on the scene that a ranger in Tillman's own platoon had fired the fatal shots, the Army aggressively maneuvered to keep this information from Tillman's family and the American public for five weeks following his death, while President Bush repeatedly invoked Tillman's name to promote his administration's foreign policy. The author draws on Tillman's journals and letters, interviews with his wife and friends, conversations with the soldiers who served alongside him, and extensive research in Afghanistan. |
| Note locale |
Book |
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Large print book |
| ISBN |
9780739327630 (lg. print) |
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0739327631 (lg. print) |
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