A couple of books

The big news this week was the Oscars (not much interest) and Biden's Address to Congress (see brief remark in Supreme Court wrap-up tomorrow).

I had various false starts book-wise and wound up re-reading Robert Kennedy's short book on the Cuban Missile Crisis (more of an uncompleted manuscript with an extended postscript commentary by two others), Thirteen Days. Years ago, I also saw the movie with Kevin Costner playing a supporting character. The book is a basic under 100 page account that would make good high school reading. The prologue written years later noted things actually was more on edge than was actually assumed at the time.

I watched Elizabeth Becker on C-SPAN discuss her book You Don't Belong Here: How Three Women Re-Wrote the Story of War. That subtitle might promise too much, but it is a well written account of three journalistic pioneers during the Vietnam War. In the process, we also learn a lot about the conflict itself. So, it's a two-fer. The author herself also eventually reported on an aspect of the conflict.