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Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
Author:Jon Krakauer
Cover Artist:Ed Darack
Country:United States
Language:English
Subject:Pat Tillman
Genre:Biography
Publisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub Date:September 15, 2009
Media Type:Print (hardcover)
Pages:416 pp.
Isbn:0-385-52226-6
Oclc:230729837
Dewey:796.332029
Congress:GV939.T49K73 2008
Preceded By:Under the Banner of Heaven
Followed By:Three Cups of Deceit

Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman, a 2009 book written by Jon Krakauer, is a biography of Pat Tillman, an American football player who left his professional career and enlisted in the United States Army after the September 11 attacks. He was killed in 2004 in the US war in Afghanistan by friendly fire, an incident which the US government attempted to cover up. To write the book, Krakauer drew heavily upon Tillman's journals, interviews with the Tillman family, Boots On the Ground by Dusk: My Tribute to Pat Tillman by Mary Tillman, and extensive research on the ground in Afghanistan.

Criticisms

While at a Sundance screening of the documentary film The Tillman Story (2010), Tillman's youngest brother Richard was asked about Krakauer's book. His response was "that guy's a piece of ..."[1]

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Notes and References

  1. News: Zeitchik. Steven. 24 Frames: Sundance 2010, Michael Moore loves the Pat Tillman documentary, but will middle America?. 24 January 2010. 5 April 2023. Los Angeles Times.