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THE EVIL HOURS: A BIOGRAPHY OF POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER By David J. Morris Boston (MA): Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015 352 pp., $27.00
In The Evil Hours, David Morris uses his experience as an ex-Marine infantry officer and Iraq war correspondent to write a biography about posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), not unlike how Siddhartha Mukherjee used his experience as an oncologist to craftThe Emperor of All Maladies.
Morris never saw a combat zone while in the Marines, so he embedded in the second Iraq war as a correspondent. "Twenty-three and fresh out of college, I didn't want responsibility, I wanted adventure-adventure and the stories that came out of it," he writes.
A superb writer, Morris begins the...