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David A. F. Sweet is the author of Three Seconds in Munich: The Controversial 1972 Olympic Basketball Final and Lamar Hunt: The Gentle Giant Who Revolutionized Professional Sports. He has launched columns for WSJ.com and NBCSports.com and has written articles for the Chicago Sun-Times, the Los Angeles Times, and other publications. He lives outside Chicago with his wife and three children.

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Great piece on Three Seconds in Munich

It may be unusual to have a piece about a sports book in a bank publication, but here you go:
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David Sweet is on page 147 of 326 of With the Old Breed: Chilling in many ways. On Peleliu in the Pacific, Sledge writes, “To my left, lay a couple of bloated Japanese corpses teaming with maggots … it was like no other battlefield described on earth. It was an alien, unearthly, surrealistic nightmare, like the surface of another planet.”
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This exhaustive, authoritative look at the entire 64 years of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis' fascinating life was nearly always captivating. The amount of sources and quotes (some from other publications) that Sarah Bradford employs is impressive. Some ...more
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“There are no boring psychopaths,” writes Rich Cohen in his latest work of non-fiction, Murder in the Dollhouse. “They hum with electricity…decisions that seem inexplicable in the abstract – marrying a man one month after his divorce, following him t ...more
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