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Reviewed on October 1, 2004
Once a football beat writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer , Bowden became an eclectic reporting star with the publication of Black Hawk Down , his you-are-there account of the disastrous 1993 firefight in Somalia that defined the failure of the U.S. humanitarian intervention in that land's horrific civil war. This tome nicely represents his work from the early 1980s to last year. The opening pieces--a profile of Sad...Log In or Sign Up to Read More