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News and notes regarding a memoir by a 7th Cavalry U.S. Army soldier who survived the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

His article, "The Secret Weapons of Ukraine," appeared in the February 2023 issue of Esquire.

When it comes to global events -- and our government's responses to them -- how is Biden doing?

On this Veterans Day, we revisit our conversation from last May with Phil Klay, the National Book Award-winning author and U.S. Marine Corps vet.

"A painful and propulsive memoir delivered in the honest tones of a woman who didn't always think she'd live to tell her story." -- The New York Times

"[The] longest, meatiest and most probing essays and articles presented here share the lasting power of Klay's acclaimed fiction.... [When] read together, [these pieces] amount to an interwoven, evolving, and revealing examination of Klay's central topic: What it means for a country always at war, that so few of its people do the fighting." -- James Fallows, The New York Times Book Review

"Few humans know more about how to stay motivated under less-than-ideal conditions than Nate Zinsser." -- Bloomberg Businessweek

"Few humans know more about how to stay motivated under less-than-ideal conditions than Nate Zinsser." -- Bloomberg Businessweek

"Substantive yet wryly humorous.... Skillfully drawing on primary and secondary sources, the authors show that Stephen F. Austin...fought to protect slavery from Mexican legislators' desire to abolish it, and that the independence movement was focused on preserving Texas's slave-based cotton economy." — Publishers Weekly

"Substantive yet wryly humorous.... Skillfully drawing on primary and secondary sources, the authors show that Stephen F. Austin...fought to protect slavery from Mexican legislators' desire to abolish it, and that the independence movement was focused on preserving Texas's slave-based cotton economy." — Publishers Weekly