Fortunate Son (Paperback)

Lewis B. Puller, Jr.

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Editorial: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, 2000

0802136907 / 9780802136909

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Paperback. This Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir written "with simplicity and candor, with touches of spontaneous humor" is a moving story of a man born into a proud military legacy who struggles to rebuild his world after the Vietnam War has shattered his body and his ideals. (The New York Times Book Review)Lewis B. Puller, Jr.the son of Chesty Puller, a hero of World War II and the Korean War and the most decorated marine in the corps historygrew up in a family whose strongest tradition was that of serving ones country. Upon graduation from college at the height of the Vietnam War, young Lewis almost inevitably joined the Marine Corps, and his firm intention of commanding infantry troops was fulfilled with a tour of duty in Vietnam in the summer of 1968. A few months later, he returned home to his wife and soon-to-be-born child missing his left leg above the knee, his right leg at the torso, most of his left hand, and a thumb and a finger of his right hand.Lewis Puller would never walk again, though he would complete law school, serve on President Fords Clemency Board, and run for Congress from Virginia. He would also live with nightmares about his wounding in Vietnam, daytime horrors of feeling that he had been used up and discarded and a growing dependence on alcohol. But amid his struggles both mental and physical, Lewis Pullers greatest challenge was to wrestle with his fathers legacy, to attempt to come to terms with both its honor and its snares: If I could now summon the courage to forgive my government, to forgive those whose views and actions concerning the war differed from mine, and to forgive myself, I could perhaps move into the present, attain a degree of serenity, and find the reason for which I had been spared, first in Vietnam and then a second time, an alcoholic death.Lewis Pullers is a story of the contradictory forces of family tradition and individual experience, and the strains of deep feelingpersonal, political, and professionalthat have riven our country for almost two decades and that still play themselves out among hundreds of thousands of veterans. Lewis Puller has overcome physical and psychological obstacles that few have faced: fewer still have told their stories more openly, more honestly, or more devastatingly. When Lewis Puller tripped a booby-trapped howitzer round in Vietnam, triggering a explosion that would cost him his legs, his career as a soldier ended--and the battle to reclaim his life began. "An extraordinary story of survival. And of love."--Mary Jordan, "The Washington Post." Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Título
Fortunate Son (Paperback)
Autor
Lewis B. Puller, Jr.
Editorial
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, New York
Año de publicación
2000
Estado
new
Encuadernación
Paperback
Idioma
inglés
ISBN 10
0802136907
ISBN 13
9780802136909

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