{"id":717,"date":"2004-01-01T12:38:01","date_gmt":"2004-01-01T16:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2004\/01\/01\/read-this-tour-duty\/"},"modified":"2010-07-26T12:40:06","modified_gmt":"2010-07-26T16:40:06","slug":"read-this-tour-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2004\/01\/01\/read-this-tour-duty\/","title":{"rendered":"Read This: Tour of Duty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"tourduty.GIF\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beatrice.com\/tourduty.GIF\" width=\"66\" height=\"100\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"1\" \/>Douglas Brinkley&#8217;s <A href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/29017\/biblio\/0060565233\"><I>Tour of Duty<\/I><\/A> (recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/issues\/2003\/12\/media-preview\/brinkley.htm\">excerpted<\/a> in <I>The Atlantic Monthly<\/I>) offers tremendous insight into the character of John Kerry, frankly more than you&#8217;ll find in his official campaign book, <A href=\"http:\/\/www.booksense.com\/product\/info.jsp?affiliateId=Beatrice&#038;isbn=0670032603\"><I>A Call to Service<\/I><\/A>.  (And I reviewed them both for <I>PW<\/I>, so I should know!)  (Though in all fairness, Kerry&#8217;s book isn&#8217;t at all bad for the genre, and he came off more candidly than Howard Dean did in his book.)<\/p>\n<p>There don&#8217;t seem to be any reviews of the book online yet, or interviews with Brinkley, though they&#8217;re sure to come in the next week or so.  In the meantime, here&#8217;s a link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uno.edu\/~eice\/\">Eisenhower Center for American Studies<\/a>, which Brinkley directs.  If an interview shows up, I&#8217;ll revise the post or add a comment or something, but I wanted to give folks a heads up on the book, which has a one-day laydown next week&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Douglas Brinkley&#8217;s Tour of Duty (recently excerpted in The Atlantic Monthly) offers tremendous insight into the character of John Kerry, frankly more than you&#8217;ll find in his official campaign book, A Call to Service. (And I reviewed them both for PW, so I should know!) (Though in all fairness, Kerry&#8217;s book isn&#8217;t at all bad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}