Tom Bissell: The Father of All Things: A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam

March 19, 2007 / 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Barnes & Noble Booksellers
6th @ 22nd
Chelsea
675 6th Avenue
New York, NY

Joe Klein - The New York TimesBissell, who has published two previous books, brings more than just a “lifetime of thinking” about Vietnam to his task. He also brings a luminous prose style and, perhaps more important, a clear, fresh eye to events that many of us have allowed to slip into the infuriatingly painful past. He has devised a clever structure for the book, which slides back and forth between the Bissell family story and straightforward narrative accounts of the war that are rigorous and convincing.