Doug Stanton: John Wayne Fan
Mark Safranski has a mini-review up of Doug Stanton’s Horse Soldiers.
Not having read the book, I don’t have anything substantive to add. I had previously mentally noted that Horse Soldiers was also the name of a classic John Wayne movie but figured it was a coincidence — until I saw the bottom blurb that he had previous written a book called In Harm’s Way which, of course, is also the name of a classic John Wayne movie.
Any guesses as to the next book? Marry up a John Wayne movie title with a one-sentence subtitle in Stanton’s genre to play along. The Green Berets is hereby ruled ineligible on account of being too obvious.
Lessee (assuming they don’t necessarily have to be of the military persuasion):
The Searchers: The Incredible Story of the Air Force Air-Sea Rescue Service
The High and The Mighty: Cannabis and The Fall of Wall Street
The Shootist: The Unauthorized Biography of Dick Cheney
They Were Expendable: Those who supported the Obama presidency, and how he threw them under the bus!!!