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Friendly Fire is not another self-righteous lamentation about the U.S.'s tragic blunderings in Southeast Asia; rather, it is as close to elemental tragedy as any nonfiction account to come out of the war. Bryan conveys Peg Mul len's grief and rage with such purity and tact that at times she seems like a Mid dle Western Antigone, challenging the authority of the state in the name of what individuals hold most sacred. This might be too high-blown a comparison for the farmer's wife to accept. But she would probably agree with Sophocles...
Prosecutor and defender were at their best while giving their summations. Browning placed before him on the table the sawed-off carbine that Patty admitted carrying into the bank. Then the Government's man, a tall, spare, righteous figure, coaxed and exhorted the jury for nearly two hours, projecting a sense of deep moral outrage at what he claimed the defendant had done...
...appalls and angers me that male presidential candidates, who will never have to go through the agony of an unwanted pregnancy, can take such a self-righteous stand on a personal decision like abortion...
...Governor's relationship with the legislature was more stormy. A stubborn, even self-righteous man, he seemed temperamentally unsuited for the give-and-take of governing. He thought nothing of tongue-lashing legislators and lobbyists whom he considered obstructionist. This attitude almost cost him his cherished reorganization plan and prevented his consumer protection legislation from being enacted...
...political giant is not just a tallying up of the Richard Nixons who slipped through the system. There is a more subtle but equally incisive measure of the disintegrating state of affairs, an assessment of those who call themselves the system's avant-garde and regard themselves as the righteous guardians of social justice. There is an invidious callousness which pervades every layer of American society, including its left-swinging tips. It is an insensitivity spawned no doubt of power tipsyness, for the U.S. is a nation strong enough to keep its own wars thousands of miles off American shores...