David Maraniss

Michael Weisskopf

Based on the 14-part Washington Post series that has already won two major journalism prizes, Tell Newt to Shut Up is an unprecedented, fly-on-the-wall look at the deals, the sell-outs, the crucial moments, and the fatal mistakes of Newt Gingrich's "Republican Revolution".

Prize-Winning Washington Post Journalists Reveal How Reality Gagged the Gingrich Revolution

Tell Newt to Shut Up

This "expert piece of journalism by a brave man about brave men" follows three soldiers and a reporter through eighteen months on Ward 57, Walter Reed's amputee wing (The Washington Post) Time magazine's Michael Weisskopf was riding through Baghdad in the back of a U.S. Army Humvee when he heard a metallic thunk. Looking down, he spotted a small object inches from his feet and reached down to take it in his hand. Then everything went black. Weisskopf lost his hand and was sent to Ward 57 at Walter Reed Medical Center, the wing reserved for amputees. There he met soldiers Pete Damon, Luis Rodriguez, and Bobby Isaacs, alongside whom he navigated the bewildering process of recovery and began reconciling life before that day in Baghdad with everything that would follow his release. Blood Brothers is the story of this difficult passage—a story that begins with healthy men heading off to war, and continues through the months in Ward 57 as they prepare for a different life than the one they left. A chronicle of devastation and recovery, this is a deeply affecting portrait of the private aftermath of combat casualties.

Among the Soldiers of Ward 57

Blood Brothers

A TIME magazine correspondent who lost his hand during a bombing in Iraq describes the incident that changed his life and his treatment at Ward 57 at Walter Reed Medical Center, a wing reserved for amputees, where he met Pete Damon, Louis Rodriguez, and Bobby Isaacs, three soldiers and fellow amputees. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.

The Veil of Moses describes the creation of Russian romantic literary stereotypes which shaped the opinion of the Russian public on the Jews.

Michael Weisskopf

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