Book reviews: 'The Good Soldiers,' 'After America's Midlife Crisis,' 'Field Notes on Democracy,' 'Drawing for Architecture'
THE GOOD SOLDIERS, by David Finkel. Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
284 pp., $26.
In April 2007, U.S. Army Lt. Col. Ralph Kauzlarich led a battalion of 800 soldiers into one of the most dangerous areas in Baghdad. David Finkel, a reporter for The Washington Post, does a stunning job of bringing us inside their lives, hearts and minds. He notices what they hold for good luck, how they stand...
