Progressive Book Club Chooses The Unforgiving Minute by Craig M. Mullaney as May PBC Pick
Progressive Book Club announces that its PBC Pick for the month of May is The Unforgiving Minute by Craig M. Mullaney.
(PRWEB) May 7, 2009 -- Progressive Book Club announces that its PBC Pick for the month of May is The Unforgiving Minute by Craig M. Mullaney.
As President Obama and his administration craft our nation's foreign policy and military strategies for Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and beyond, this candid, eloquent memoir offers a rare first-hand look at what soldiers experience both in battle and as they prepare to fight.
The Unforgiving Minute is an unforgettable self-portrait of one young soldier, Craig M. Mullaney, a blue-collar boy whose unique education came by way of West Point, Oxford (he was a Rhodes Scholar), and Afghanistan, where, as a Captain in the Army Rangers, he learned the hard lessons only war can teach.
In Afghanistan, despite all his preparation, he confronted questions harder than any he'd faced before. When the call came to lead his platoon into battle and earn his soldiers' salutes, would he be ready? Was his education sufficient for the unforgiving minutes he'd face?
The Washington Post writes, "In this extraordinary book, Mullaney has taken the trouble to look very closely, and has had the courage to discover the limits to his own understanding. Readers will be fascinated to look over his shoulder."
The Unforgiving Minute is the searching memoir of one gifted young American grappling with the weight of his hard-earned knowledge, while at last coming to terms with what it really means to be a man.
The Unforgiving Minute is the twelfth PBC Pick for Progressive Book Club, which launched its Web site in June of 2008, following The Big Squeeze: Tough Times For the American Worker by Steven Greenhouse (June), Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists by Susan Neiman (July), The Power of Progress: How America's Progressives Can (Once Again) Save Our Economy, Our Climate, And Our Country by John Podesta (August), The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism by Ron Suskind (September), The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems by Van Jones (October), Promised Land by Jay Parini (November), State by State, edited by Matt Weiland and Sean Wilsey (December), The Defining Moment by Jonathan Alter (January), The Inheritance by David E. Sanger (February), Angels and Ages by Adam Gopnik (March), and Food Matters by Mark Bittman (April).
The PBC Pick is chosen monthly by Progressive Book Club's Editorial Board, whose distinguished members include Michael Chabon, Dave Eggers, Barbara Kingsolver, Hendrik Hertzberg, Gail Sheehy, Katrina vanden Heuvel, John Podesta and Andy Stern, among more than two dozen prominent authors, journalists, academics and politicos.
About Progressive Book Club:
Progressive Book Club finds - and promotes - the books that can change our nation by harnessing the power of the Internet to create an important new platform for progressive ideas. Part bookseller, part online magazine, Progressive Book Club is the best new way to buy books and support progressive causes with every book you buy.
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