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To: LindyBill who wrote (9939)	9/29/2003 10:15:24 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793623

Haven't read Frum's book and can see no reason to do so. Do you know about David Maraniss' new book, They Marched into Sunlight: War and Peace Vietnam and America October 1967? I'm about half way through. Can't say enough good things about it. He takes a battle in Vietnam in October of 1967, tracks the US soldiers involved, the way the battle develops, paralleling it with actions from the Vietnamese side. And parallels all that with a large demonstration at the University of Wisconsin against Dow, coupled with conversations in the Johnson administration. Much of it is about connections and distinctions between all these worlds. And about the way mistakes cumulate to create greater mistakes. Maraniss tells it very well. The publisher quotes Walter Isaacson in a blurb on the back as considering it the best book about war he has ever read. I could not agree more.