"[A] stunning book... well
written and presented. Weiss, the president and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum
of Art in New York, is an accomplished researcher and writer. He has produced a
nicely constructed offering that threads a historical narrative of the Vietnam
War into the story of Army Capt. Michael D. O'Donnell...I enjoyed this book. I
recommend that it become a staple in high school curricula as a resource during
the study of the Vietnam War." -VVA Veteran

"Poignant...Weiss
brilliantly evokes O'Donnell's fatal mission and the toll his MIA status took
on his loved ones...As a préeacute;cis on the tragic place Vietnam holds in the American
consciousness... this slim book succeeds admirably."

--Publishers Weekly

"So many years after the
Vietnam War, Dan Weiss has written an elegiac book about a soldier and poet who
died when his helicopter went down in the jungle. A tribute to all soldiers who
died in Vietnam, it's also a reminder that soldiers die at the will of people
who may or may not understand what they are sending them to die for."

--Frances Fitzgerald,
author of Fire in the Lake

"They called it the
pucker factor--the helplessness you felt riding in a chopper taking fire from
below. It took half a century to dull those memories. Dan Weiss brought them
back in one chapter." --James Sterba, Vietnam correspondent, New York
Times, 1969-1970

"In That Time
rescues a young man's life from the jungle ravine where his helicopter crashed
during the Vietnam War and was left undiscovered for decades. Like
thousands of other soldiers whose lives had barely begun only to be squandered
in that war, Michael O'Donnell had his hopes and dreams, family and friends.
His poems about the war are still shared by veterans. Weiss examines
O'Donnell's loss with meticulous and civic compassion."

--John Balaban, author of Remembering
Heaven's Face

"Dan Weiss has told a
compelling story about the creative and artistic spirit of one soldier, but
learning about Michael O'Donnell forces us to remember that there were more
than 58,000 such stories of lives cut short; wives, parents, and siblings left
behind; children unborn; songs not sung; and poems not written. Each of these
deaths is like a jagged scar on the soul of our nation, made all the more
infuriating for having occurred as part of a poorly explained and inconclusive
war. In That Time reminds us what happens when leaders fail, that at the
end of every bullet is someone's son or daughter, someone like Michael
O'Donnell."