Prologue: "And So It Is Over"
1. "I Wanted to Get Out..."
2. "A Nice Little Column"
3. "A Slightly Used Secondhand Man..."
4. "In It to the Hilt..."
5. "I'll Just Drift with the War..."
6. "The Number-One Correspondent..."
7. "The Ghastly Brotherhood..."
8. "An Awful Knowledge..."
9. "You Alone Are Left Alive..."
10. "The Pyle Phenomenon"
11. "An End to This Wandering"
Epilogue: "What I See"
Appendix: An Ernie Pyle Sampler
Notes
A Note on Sources
Acknowledgments
Index
James Tobin won the National Book Critics Circle Award in biography for Ernie Pyle’s War and the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award for To Conquer the Air: The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight. Educated at the University of Michigan, where he earned a PhD in history, he teaches narrative nonfiction in the Department of Media, Journalism, and Film at Miami University in Oxford, OH.
"This is the portrait of a complex, enormously gifted but tortured
writer . . . but it is much more: few books about combat journalism
have so vividly depicted the fascinating interactions between war
correspondents, soldiers and folks back home. . . . World War II
was quintessentially Ernie Pyle's war, and Mr. Tobin brilliantly
explains why." -- The New York Times Book Review
"James Tobin's magnificent new biography of Pyle should do much to
renew the luster of his name and revive interest in his
extraordinary work. . . . This clear-eyed, unsentimental,
beautifully written biography is a classic worthy of the man it
celebrates." -- The Cleveland Plain Dealer
"What makes this biography so fascinating . . . is the story of
Pyle himself, a man seemingly driven by demons and nagged by
self-doubt who accomplished so much. . . . Anyone with an interest
in the power of the written word will be intrigued -- and will
lament that Pyle was the sort of character unlikely to be seen
again." -- The Philadelphia Inquirer
"Barely a half century ago Ernie Pyle was one of the most famous
people in America . . . both the chronicler of the common man and
its embodiment. Now, five decades after his death from Japanese
fire on a small island in the Pacific, Pyle has had the good
fortune to fall under the scrutiny of a sympathetic, unsentimental
and scrupulous biographer. . . . The result is a thorough,
revealing book." -- The Washington Post Book World
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