First Impressions #30: Alexander Riley

March 31, 2015March 31, 2015

Alexander Riley, Angel Patriots: The Crash of United Flight 93 and the Myth of America, New York University Press, 2015, 352pp., $30 — Alexander Riley, *Angel Patriots: The Crash of United Flight 93 and the Myth of America*, New York University Press, 2015, 352pp., $30

Art Remillard talks with Alexander Riley about his new book Angel Patriots: The Crash of United Flight 93 and the Myth of America. Riley is Professor of Sociology at Bucknell University.

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