THE LONG VIEW IS EARNED: A FIELD MANUAL FOR THE FINAL THIRD Paperback – March 12, 2026

This book began with a question: what do we inherit, and what do we choose?The essays that follow are not a memoir in the conventional sense. There is no single arc, no crisis resolved, no wisdom delivered from the far side of suffering. What there is instead is a set of truths — about a father, a son, a marriage, a vocation, a body of water in Maine that does not flatter you. About the things I carried and the things I should have set down sooner. About the difference between excellence and joy, which I learned too late and at someone else's expense.I am sixty-one. The view from here is longer than it once was, and clearer in ways that are not always comfortable. What I can see now is that most of what I know I learned from moving through the world — on motorcycles, on soccer fields, in classrooms, in the cab of a truck going home after a night I should have handled differently.The long view is earned. This is how I earned mine. Read more