UM Common Reading Experience 2013: The Unforgiving Minute

Three copies of the book are available at the Reserve desk in the J.D. Williams Library (1st floor). Call number: U53.M85 A3 2010. One copy is available in the main library stacks, and one copy is in Archives & Special Collections. 

Mullaney took his book's title from the Rudyard Kipling poem, "If," particularly the following passage:

"If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And---which is more---you'll be a Man, my son!"

To read the whole poem, look here - http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/175772

Read Chapter 1  

Read the excerpt "Boxing Match in Afghanistan"