avid Chrisinger's is a road book suffused with a spirit of discovery and adventure. Perhaps no genre is better suited to its subject, the World War II correspondent Ernie Pyle, who could not stay home. Chrisinger asked himself what he might learn if he “roused the hibernating nomad buried deep inside me, and retraced Ernie's steps through the war.” In the acknowledgments, he reveals his model: Tony Horwitz's . Horwitz's wonderful book is, as many readers will recall, an odyssey through the landscape of Civil War memory. It took root in its author's childhood encounters with a book of war sketches owned by his greatgrandfather and with , a multivolume pictorial extravaganza
FRONTLINE ORACLE
Jun 01, 2023
4 minutes
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