Is This a Writer's Book?

"This is what I mean by sort of a writer's book as well," he says. "You have this thread, which is Smedley Butler's life and you just go sort of, it's a perfect, very grim thread from one spot to another." The Philippines episode particularly interesting because that was a big and very nasty war fought by the U.S. He even got in on a movie and there's a photo of him as an extra or something in Goyo the boy general.