Books, Arts & Manners: A Reporter’s Revenge

Prisoners of Hope: Exploiting the POW/MIA Myth in America, by Susan Katz Keating (Random, 276 pp., $23)

SOMEDAY, in the year 2015, say, the State Department will issue a report very much like the one it issued two years ago, officially recognizing that a number of American war prisoners had once remained captive in a foreign land after the shooting had stopped, even though the enemy refused to admit it. The report two years ago was about the Korean War; the new one, of course, will be about Vietnam. We will close a chapter of history, although by then it is unlikely many people will still care.

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Prisoners of Hope: Exploiting the POW/MIA Myth in America, by Susan Katz Keating (Random, 276 pp., $23)

SOMEDAY, in the year 2015, say, the State Department will issue a report very much like the one it issued two years ago, officially recognizing that a number of American war prisoners had once remained captive in a foreign land after the shooting had stopped, even though the enemy refused to admit it. The report two years ago was about the Korean War; the new one, of course, will be about Vietnam. We will close a chapter of history, although by then it is unlikely many people will still care.