An exploration of American violence, interweaving memoir, history, and reportage to reveal the wound at the heart of our nation—and to offer hope that the country, and we, might be healed.
A magnificently honest and intensely personal extended letter to his children ... The stories spill off the pages in a non-linear fashion, moving from family episodes of violence and grief and determination to national moments of the same ... A deeply moving reminiscence about the meaning and nature of our country 250 years after its founding, one that we might not want, but which we desperately need.
Eviscerating ... [A] piercing and propulsive treatise on the distorted relationship between America’s violent history and its treasured frontier mythology.
