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Junger has spent much of the last decade travelling the world and investigating some of the world’s trouble spots. In his new book—the first since his award-winning debut novel The Perfect Storm??€”he brings together previously published essays from the world’s front lines in a stunningly rich montage of people and death. In essence, it is a book about voyeurism—about our need to watch from the front lines of a war or to stare transfixed at dancing flames of fire—but the underlying...
...artistic failure seems to further bolster its status. No one has ever seemed to think that Eliot’s judgment actually has any impact on the work. His voice is like that of a man telling a storm to stop; it only serves to emphasize the storm??€™s overwhelming power...
...Goldwater’s post-1964 life, and how the Republican Party was able to make such a quick and remarkable recovery, are barely touched upon. Despite Perlstein’s claim that his is only a book about how the conservative revolution began, Before the Storm??€™s sudden ending leaves much to be desired...