Snap Judgment
Newsweek, October, 2003 by David Gates, Peter Plagens, Dorothy Kalins
THEY MARCHED INTO SUNLIGHT
By David Maraniss
Pultizer Prize winner Maraniss reconstructs two days in 1967: in Vietnam, on the demonstration-torn campus of the University of Wisconsin and in the Johnson White House. The domestic conflicts--between students and administrators, and among the president's advisers--would seem more compelling if they didn't have to compete with Maraniss's moving, white-knuckle account of a deadly ambush: an American battalion destroyed on a pointless mission in a pointless war.
--David Gates
DISARMED: THE STORY OF THE VENUS DE MILO
By Gregory Curtis
Never judge a book by its cover--or its groaner title. Curtis's story of the world's most famous statue is part thriller (smuggling her off the island of Melos...
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