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Ed Gorman has a lot of history in politics. The Iowa resident has worked as a speechwriter and campaign commercial producer, so he knew the background when he wrote “Sleeping Dogs: A Mystery, which is a thriller set during the re-election campaign of a senator with a, ah, “zipper problem.”
There are several new nonfiction books that look promising. In “Italy’s Sorrow: A Year of War, 1944-45,” author James Holland offers a harrowing look at the World War II in Italy, especially at the suffering of civilians. Speaking of war, in “Going to War,” author Russ Hoyle examines the “misinformation” and “disinformation” that resulted in the United States invading Iraq. And, closer to home, Martin A. Dyckman looks at scandal in the Florida judiciary in “A Most Disorderly Court.”
Posted by George Conk, New York City on 04/02 at 08:47 AM
Russ Hoyle’s Going to War demonstrates what you think you knew but didn’t. It masterfully handles a story of amazing complexity - how we were maneuvered into war in Iraq.
Lke a Graham Greene novel it is a story of the ambiguity of evil - ofdeception (of self and others), cowardice, and careless assumptions that Saddam Hussein’s demonstrable bad intentions meant care did not need to be taken with the truth.