SOURCE: Baldwin, Christopher E. “A Proud Day.” National Review 54, no. 18 (30 September 2002): 47.

In the following review, Baldwin notes that James B. Stewart's biography Heart of a Soldier serves to highlight the many acts of heroism and personal sacrifice that marked the backdrop of violence unleashed by the attacks on September 11.

Consider the last 18 months. It looks like The Great American Crack-up: A decade-long orgy of moneyed excess and Clintonian evasion comes to a climax in roiling capital markets and collapsing portfolios, domestic terrorism and foreign war, disgraced clerics and discovered corporate thievery. Even baseball threatened to let America down.

But—as if to restore our faith—along comes this excellent book. Heart of a Soldier is the story of a life of heroic virtue and self-sacrifice, but it is also a simple love story, the love of a big-hearted man for his adopted country, for his friends and family...