![]() ![]() He gave the mother and three of the pups away while keeping the two “prettiest” for himself. ![]() Lee gathered up the dogs and took them back to the base. Fond of dogs, Lee looked inside and discovered an “agitated” German shepherd nursing five small puppies. ![]() On September 15, 1918, he was wandering through a field near Fluiry looking for post-battle mementos when he saw an apparently abandoned kennel. ![]() Orlean begins at the beginning when Leland Duncan goes to France as a young soldier. She always wanted to hold that dog, and in a way, this book is her adult hug to the unreachable statuette. She also remembers a Rin Tin Tin figurine that her grandfather sequestered where children couldn’t touch it. Orlean recalls regularly watching Rin Tin Tin with her siblings on 1950s Saturday morning television. Both are exploratory memoirs, investigations that begin with childhood memories and then dig into archival history, pop culture, personal interviews, and the very soul of the subject at hand. The format of Rin Tin Tin reads much like The Library Book. No, not the same dog, but a cottage industry that has kept the original’s image alive for a very long time. My first choice was Rin Tin Tin, Orlean’s encyclopedic look at an iconic German shepherd that has remained in the public eye for nearly a century. Because I liked it so much, I thought I might explore other books she has written. Not long ago, I reviewed Susan Orlean’s latest, The Library Book. RIN TIN TIN – America’s favorite German Shepherd ![]()
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