Volume 51, Number 8 · May 13, 2004
Eastward Ho!
By David Gilmour
The Man Who Would Be King: The First American in Afghanistan
by Ben Macintyre
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 351 pp., $25.00
Americans were supposed to go west, at least if they were young. West, wrote Arthur Chapman, was where the handclasp was 'a little stronger' and the smile dwelt 'a little longer.' In 'The Long Trail' Rudyard Kipling suggested one could run 'East all the way into Mississippi Bay,/Or West to the Golden Gate.' Then, at any rate, the poet's East was West.
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