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From Reason, the excellent Jesse Walker locates American Sniper within a semi-nativist (if sometimes anti-native) American antiwar tradition. For what it's worth, I found it a powerful film, and not at all…
Bill Kauffman
February 21, 2015

From Reason, the excellent Jesse Walker locates American Sniper within a semi-nativist (if sometimes anti-native) American antiwar tradition. For what it’s worth, I found it a powerful film, and not at all jingoistic.

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Bill Kauffman

Bill Kauffman is the author of eleven books, among them Dispatches from the Muckdog Gazette (Henry Holt), Ain’t My America (Metropolitan), Look Homeward, America (ISI), and Poetry Night at the Ballpark (FPR Books). His next book, Upstaters, is due from SUNY Press in 2026. He is a columnist for The American Conservative and The Spectator World. Bill wrote the screenplay for the 2013 feature film Copperhead. He is a founding editor of Front Porch Republic and has served as a legislative assistant to Senator Pat Moynihan, editor for various magazines and publishers, and vice president of the Batavia Muckdogs, a professional baseball team that was euthanized by Major League Baseball. He lives with his wife Lucine in his native Genesee County, New York.

2 comments

  • chris
    10 years ago

    Twas very jingoistic. You surprise me, Bill

  • Brad Lundell
    10 years ago

    Thanks for the link Bill. My wife and I went to see American Sniper in an attempt to clear the entire Best Picture dance card (came up short by not seeing Whiplash) and I found the movie to be a very good character study. Funny thing to me is that both Eastwood and Cooper have done better work that wasn’t as highly recognized. To me, the bottom line is that nations wage wars, but men and women fight them and those are two entirely different propositions.

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