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He proposes solutions. I don't like all of them but universal approval is not what's called for to appreciate this book. It's his sense of "rightness", a sense of honor, and fundamental decency that engages the reader.

Webb is a decorated hero of the Viet Nam war, a boxer, an Undersecretary of Defense, Secretary of the Navy under President Reagan, (a Democrat by inclination, he became a Reagan Democrat in those years), a journalist, a writer, a student of history, and now a U.S. Senator, almost by default. He didn't want the job, but duty called.
He likes to say that in the Senate he is unique in that he has a union card, two Purple Hearts, and three tattoos. A protean man, is what he is. I like him and I like his books - he's written nine of them.

Kent Lundgren
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