Author of the 1996 National Book Award-winning memoir An American Requiem, James Carroll has garnered acclaim for his analyses of our country's post-9/11 foreign policy in revelatory works of nonfiction like House of War. In our interview, Carroll reflects upon his mixed feelings for the Pentagon and what it stands for. "I understand the nobility of the American impulse," he explains. "But I also feel the pain of the betrayals of that nobility. We're in a terribly unnecessary and misguided war."