Jim Webb
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About the Author
JIM WEBB, the junior senator from Virginia, is an Emmy award–winning journalist and the author of nine books, including the bestselling cultural history Born Fighting and the classic novel of the Vietnam War Fields of Fire, as well as Lost Soldiers, The Emperor’s General, and three other novels. As a Marine in Vietnam, he received the nation’s second- and third-highest awards for combat heroism. He served as Assistant Secretary of Defense and Secretary of the Navy during the Reagan administration.
