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《学校图书馆杂志》(School Library Journal)书评
YA-- This personal narrative of one man's struggle to reconcile family military traditions with a brutally realistic present is a worthy addition to YA collections. Lewis Puller, son of ``Chesty'' Puller, the Corps' most decorated Marine, volunteered for the Marine Corps in 1968 and was sent to Vietnam. Three months later he returned home with both legs missing and extensive damage to his hands. What followed was a courageous struggle to get on with his life. With the support of his wife and family, Puller went to law school. He served on President Ford's Clemency Board, ran for Congress from Virginia, and became active in veterans' affairs. He also battled alcoholism. Teens will get a strong feeling for the Vietnam War era and how veterans were affected as well as a vivid picture of a man who overcame tremendous adversity to succeed. --Carol Clark, R. E. Lee High School, Springfield, VA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
出版社周刊评论
The author is the son of WW II hero ``Chesty'' Puller, arguably the most colorful and admired Marine of them all. Seeking to emulate his father, the author joined the Corps after college and entered officers' training with the intention of becoming a combat leader. In 1968, while commanding an infantry platoon in Vietnam, Lieutenant Puller tripped a booby trap and lost both legs and one hand in the explosion. He describes his protracted hospitalization, which included a series of operations and an unsuccessful attempt to learn how to walk with the use of artificial limbs. Puller eventually became a lawyer, served on President Ford's Clemency Board, ran unsuccessfully for Congress in Virginia and joined the Pentagon's legal department. His well-written autobiography is an inspiring account by a man who fought hard to win major battles over physical helplessness, severe depressions and alcoholism. Readers will treasure the author's recollections of ``Chesty'' (clearly a wonderful father) but may find the description of the old general's decline and death as painful as the account of the son's ordeal. 50,000 ad/promo; author tour. (June) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Kirkus评论
Son of Gen. Lewis ``Chesty'' Puller, the most decorated Marine ever, the author is a Vietnam vet who lost both legs and parts of both hands in the war. Here is his story, which seems to have as much to say about alcoholism as it does about the plight of the veteran. Puller does not acknowledge that he was an alcoholic prior to the war but, through the events he describes, the reader becomes aware of possible early-stage alcoholism. During the weeks prior to his departure for Officer Candidate School, for example, he embarked on a crash course of physical conditioning because of his ``four years of abuse'' to his body; on the day he graduated from OCS, he made sure that he ``had time to sign in...and still pick up a bottle...before the package store closed.'' And Puller recounts his drinking on his belated honeymoon and on the plane to Vietnam as a matter of course. His relationship with his father was one of admiration, he reports, though his early experience as a platoon leader convinced him that a military career was not for him. This and other steps in self-knowledge, however, appear to have been interrupted by his severe wounding. His description of his recovery is painful, heroic--and always clouded by alcohol. Even his sexual reunion in the hospital with his wife is accompanied by ``early afternoon tippling.'' In August 1969, as he began to ``look more closely at the Vietnam War and the leadership in Washington,'' he was angered by a mild statement made by another veteran in defense of protesters' right to free speech: in response, he ``[drank] too much that evening.'' Through long self-struggle, however, Puller has licked booze and now works as an attorney. Puller writes well; his story will appeal to veterans and their families, as well as those interested in the relationship between substance abuse and self-fulfillment.
《书目》(Booklist)书评
This is an extremely well written Vietnam memoir by a veteran who survived a truly horrifying array of wounds (the loss of both legs, one hand, and most of the remaining hand), then went on to survive a bout with alcoholism, earn a law degree, preserve his marriage, and become active in veterans affairs. Puller managed all this in the long shadow of his father, the legendary marine general Chesty Puller, on whom the book throws a good deal of additional light. Highly recommended for Vietnam collections. ~--Roland Green
《图书馆杂志》(Library Journal )书评
Son of Korean War hero ``Chesty'' Puller, Lewis B. Puller Jr. graduated from college and then volunteered for the Marine Corps in order to carry on the family tradition. His Vietnam tour in the spring of 1968 was terminated by a booby-trapped howitzer round which left him without legs and parts of both hands. Returning home to his wife and soon-to-be-born child, his predictably difficult readjustment had dark periods of alcoholism. However, he faced his challenge and climbed from the pit of despair. His greatest accomplishments include running for Congress in Virginia, completing his law degree, and his current, longstanding service as a lawyer at the Pentagon. His is an inspiring story of genuine courage, written with intelligence and restraint. This compares well with Vietnam veteran Ron Kovic's more visceral classic of overcoming severe disability, Born on the Fourth of July (McGraw, 1976.) Highly recommended.-- Richard W. Grefrath, Univ. of Nevada Lib . , Reno (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.