An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War That Came Between Us
 

An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War That Came Between Us

by James Carroll

Joe Carroll was an Air Force lieutenant general who chose Vietnamese targets for American bombs. Joe's son James began adulthood by fulfilling his father's abandoned dream of joining the priesthood. But soon a father's hopes for his son--and a son's peace with his father--were ruined, yet another casualty of a war that tore apart so many families along generational lines. (read review)

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Yvonne M.
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Carroll wrote a fascinating book on his father, his thoughts and feelings on war, his religious ideals, and the changes they all played in his life. Well worth the read

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Ginger B
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Growing up catholic with daddy (the ersatz General), Cardinal Spellman and J. Edgar Hoover, political power, 1968, the priesthood, vietnam, the search for personal identity (any identity), guilt (the best part of being catholic), marriage, children. Oh, boy! The book details a time of social and political upheaval in America within a very personal and specific framework. That's the good part. It also agonizingly details the gut-wrenching vs. intellectual conflict of coming to terms...

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