The education of Lieutenant Kerrey
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"On the night of February 23, 1969, Bob Kerrey, an inexperienced twenty-five-year-old lieutenant, led a commando raid on the isolated hamlet of Thanh Phong in Vietnam's Mekong Delta. While witnesses and official records give varying accounts, one thing is certain: Around midnight, Kerrey and his men killed nearly two dozen unarmed women and children.".
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"What happened that night and why? It's a terrible secret that Kerrey has borne for more than thirty years. Kerrey went on to do heroic things in Vietnam and later as a politician. Since World War II, he is the only Medal of Honor recipient to sit as a member of Congress. In many ways, Kerrey's life following that tragic mission has been a struggle for redemption.".
"So is Bob Kerrey a war hero or a war criminal? Gregory L. Vistica, who uncovered the Thanh Phong atrocities in a widely praised cover story for The New York Times Magazine, searches the entire span of Kerrey's life to answer that question. From his rural boyhood in Nebraska to his gut-wrenching Navy SEAL training to his aborted run for president, Kerrey's life will become a vehicle for understanding the Vietnam generation shaped in the fifties and sharpened by the tumultuous sixties.".
"The Education of Lieutenant Kerrey is an incredible story and a modern morality tale about a man of compassion and promise trapped by a horrible secret."—BOOK JACKET.
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