On War: Jake Tapper on American Valor, Benjamin Busch on Dust to Dust: A Memoir and Brian Castner on A Story of War and the Life That Follows
Sunday, Nov. 18, 2:30 p.m., Chapman Conference Center (Building 3, 2nd Floor, Room 3210)
Author(s) and Guest(s)
Jake Tapper
Award-winning journalist Jake Tapper presents an eye-opening account of one of America’s deadliest battles in Afghanistan in The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor (Little, Brown and Company, $29.99). On 2009, Outpost Keating, manned by 53 U.S. troops was nearly overrun by a Taliban force of almost four hundred fighters. Later, a Pentagon investigation concluded that there was no reason of Outpost Keating to have been there in the first place. “Brilliant, dedicated reporting by a journalist who goes to the ground to get the truth.” Bob Woodward. Tapper is the first reporter to be awarded the White House Correspondents’ Association’s Merriman Smith Award three years in a row.
Benjamin Busch
Benjamin Busch weaves together a vivid record of a pastoral childhood in rural New York; Marine training in North Carolina, Ukraine, and California; and deployment during the worst of the war in Iraq, as seen firsthand in his memoir Dust to Dust (Ecco, 26.99). “A beautiful meditation on war, loss, and the larger questions of life and death.” –Huffington Post. Busch is an actor, a photographer, a film director, and a U.S. Marine Corps infantry officer who served two combat tours in Iraq. He played the role of Officer Anthony Colicchio on the HBO series The Wire.
Brian Castner
The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life That Follows (Doubleday, $25.95) is Brian Castner’s nonfictional portrayal of the toll war exacts on the men and women who are fighting it. Castner served three tours of duty in the Middle East, two of them as the commander of an Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit in Iraq. When he returned home to his wife and family, he began a struggle with a no less insidious foe, an unshakable feeling of fear and confusion and survivor’s guilt that he terms The Crazy. “. . . a powerful, intimate, disturbing look at the ways that war can infect the life of a soldier.”—Christian Science Monitor.
Schedule
Location
Miami Book Fair International * Miami Dade College
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132
Chapman Conference Center (Building 3, 2nd Floor, Room 3210)
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