A rollicking good ride. Jay Winik, bestselling author of April 1865
It s the middle of a heat wave, and Charlie Schroeder is dressed in heavy clothing and struggling to row a replica eighteenth-century bateau down the St. Lawrence River. Why? Months earlier, Schroeder realized he knew almost nothing about history. But he wanted to learn, so the actor best known for his role as Mr. Pussy on Sex and the City spent a year reenacting it.
Man of War is Schroeder s hilarious account of the time he spent chasing Celts in Arkansas, raiding a Viet Cong village in...