Where Men Win Glory

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Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
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Hardcover edition
Author Jon Krakauer
Cover artist Ed Darack
LanguageEnglish
Subject Pat Tillman
Genre Biography
Publisher Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date
September 15, 2009
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardcover)
Pages416 pp.
ISBN 0-385-52226-6
OCLC 230729837
796.332029
LC Class GV939.T49K73 2008
Preceded by Under the Banner of Heaven  
Followed by Three Cups of Deceit  

Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman, a 2009 book written by Jon Krakauer, is a biography of Pat Tillman, an American football player who left his professional career and enlisted in the United States Army after the September 11 attacks. He was killed in 2004 in the US war in Afghanistan by friendly fire, an incident which the US government attempted to cover up. To write the book, Krakauer drew heavily upon Tillman's journals, interviews with the Tillman family, Boots On the Ground by Dusk: My Tribute to Pat Tillman by Mary Tillman, and extensive research on the ground in Afghanistan.

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Critical response

Many media reviews praised Krakauer's investigative work. In the Sunday Oregonian, John Strawn said the book was "nuanced, thorough and chilling." [1]

In The Los Angeles Times, Dan Neil called the book a "beautiful piece of reporting" and "the definitive version of events surrounding Tillman's death." [2]

Andrew Exum took issue with Krakauer's work in The Washington Post, saying he focused too much on discrediting the Bush administration and particularly Gen. Stanley McChrystal. [3] But Post ombudsman Andrew Alexander took issue [4] with the publication's omission that Exum had served as an unpaid advisor to McChrystal, and the online version of Exum's review was updated with a correction stating that the newspaper should have disclosed the relationship.

While at a Sundance screening of the documentary film The Tillman Story (2010), Tillman's youngest brother Richard was asked about Krakauer's book. His response about the author was "that guy's a piece of ..." [5] The Pat Tillman Foundation, though, included Krakauer as one of the interviewees in a series honoring the 20th anniversary of Tillman's death. [6]

References

  1. ↑ Strawn, John (10 September 2009). "Sunday Oregonian" . Retrieved 1 October 2025.
  2. ↑ Neil, Dan (10 September 2009). "Los Angeles Times" . Retrieved 1 October 2025.
  3. ↑ Exum, Andrew (13 September 2009). "The Washington Post" . Retrieved 1 October 2025.
  4. ↑ Alexander, Andrew (15 November 2009). "The Washington Post" . Retrieved 1 October 2025.
  5. ↑ Zeitchik, Steven (24 January 2010). "24 Frames: Sundance 2010, Michael Moore loves the Pat Tillman documentary, but will middle America?". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 7 April 2023. Retrieved 5 April 2023.
  6. ↑ Krakauer, Jon (12 November 2024). "Pat Tillman: 20 Years, One Legacy" (video). youtube.com. Pat Tillman Foundation.


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