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Article: Books will tell story of slain Army Ranger Pat Tillman
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- Oakland Tribune
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- April 23, 2008
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Since Pat Tillman was killed in a chaotic barrage of gunfire on a
hillside in Afghanistan four years ago, the Leland High School
graduate and Arizona Cardinals pro football player has been
portrayed as larger than life.
Now that image is getting even larger. Two books will be
published chronicling the life and death of the square-jawed,
philosophical Army Ranger who gave up a multimillion-dollar NFL
contract to serve his country. One is by his San Jose mother and the
other by author and adventurer Jon Krakauer, who wrote "Into Thin
Air" and "Into the Wild," two bestsellers made into movies.
Krakauer is basing his book in part on extensive family
interviews and reviews of Pat Tillman's ...