Michael S. Sherry, Richard W. Leopold Professor of History at Northwestern University and author of The Rise of American Air Power: The Creation of Armageddon and In the Shadow of War: The United States since the 1930s:
“No one else has told so deeply and compellingly the story of how ‘Napalm was born a hero but lives a pariah’—a terrifying weapon associated with America’s Vietnam War whose history went back much further, as did the dishonest efforts of leaders to cope with its reputation.”