Byline: KEVIN CULLEN
Most Americans who have weighed in on Ireland's Troubles have been academics. They have the time and the interest. Journalists have tended to have neither.
In that company, Jonathan Stevenson's unflinching and compellingly written contemplation is arguably the best book by an American about a complex of issues for which thousands of people -- not to mention millions of trees -- have died. There have been many analyses, dissections and dissertations about what ails the north of Ireland, but none have captured with such clarity and forthrightness the idealism, romanticism, self-righteousness, ruthlessness, hypocrisy, sectarianism and the sheer, …
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