James Carroll

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

James Carroll

In this dramatic, intimate, and tragic memoir, James Carroll recovers a time that none of us will ever forget—a time when parents could no longer understand their sons and daughters and when young people could no longer recognize the country they had been raised to love. The wounds inflicted in that time have never fully healed, but healing is something that Carroll accomplishes in telling his family’s remarkable story.

The Carroll family stood at the center of all the conflicts swirling around the Vietnam War. Lieutenant General Joseph F. Carroll was the…

 
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