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

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

Winner of the National Book Award. Joe Carroll was an Air Force lieutenant general who chose Vietnamese targets for American bombs. Joe's son James began adulthood by fulfilling his father's abandoned dream of joining the priesthood. But soon a father's hopes for his son--and a son's peace with his father--were ruined, yet another casualty of a war that tore apart so many families along generational lines.

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

  • Publication Date: April 1, 1997
  • Paperback: 279 pages
  • Publisher: Mariner Books
  • ISBN-10: 039585993X
  • ISBN-13: 9780395859933