president's Luncheon

speaker

James Tobin

Friday, October 16

12:30 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.

James Tobin is the author of Ernie Pyle's War: Eyewitness to World War II.

"It is undoubtedly the best biography of Ernie Pyle ever written, but is more: few books about combat journalism have so vividly depicted the fascinating interactions between war correspondents, soldiers and the folks back home… World War II was quintessentially Ernie Pyle's war, and Mr. Tobin brilliantly explains why."

Malcolm W. Browne, New York Times Book Review
"Five decades after his death from Japanese fire on a small island in the Pacific, Pyle has had the good fortune to fall under the scrutiny of a sympathetic, unsentimental and scrupulous biographer."

Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post

"As Tobin powerfully demonstrates, Pyle was no ordinary reporter... This clear-eyed, unsentimental, beautifully written biography is a classic worthy of the man it celebrates."

Neil Grauer, Cleveland Plain Dealer

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