Based on extensive interviews, it recounts in unflinching detail the creation, jockeying for position and boardroom inveigling that the messaging service has gone through.
After all, Sun Tzu taught a more sophisticated approach to combat in "The Art of War," imploring a big-picture savvy that put a premium on positioning and strategy and an unflinching attachment to remembering the desired end result.
In this way, Girls invited you not to identify with its stories, but rather to position yourself in proximity to them with an unflinching abandon.
Whether or not you agree with her position, there's much to enjoy in this thoughtful, unflinching and highly entertaining memoir.
Waldron's explanation is that the position is formulated and presented as an admirable act of unflinching moral heroism by white liberal law professors who say loudly and often that we must tolerate speech we find hateful.
Which brings us to our own academic heroes, every bit the worthy modern successors to the academic traditions of President James McCosh, the preacher who admired Darwin, and to Norman Thomas himself, whose unflinching courage in the face of convention earned him the No. 24 position on PAW's 2008 list of influential Princetonians, but who spiritually may be in a race with James Madison for No. 1.
On other issues – unconditional support for Israel (the Israeli army took the unusual step of tweeting thanks for her "service"), unflinching hostility to Iran, North Korea and Venezuela – she was the most articulate exponent of hardline positions.
In "Fucking Blackness: Explosions, Invasions & Predatory Niggas" and "A Quick Blunt," the reader is greeted with poems that are unflinching their analysis and recollection of black and queer sex, pleasure and global positioning.
And Giuliani is well positioned for such debate, having defined himself, in the public mind, as the unflinching foe of a radical and dangerous ideology.
Howard Dean, the former governor of Vermont, has stirred Democratic audiences with his unflinching attacks on the White House and his reaffirmation for the most part, of liberal Democratic positions.
