The Last Stand of the Tin Can Soldiers
James D. Hornfischer
February 2004

The author seems to be on a friendly type of level with his audience. Since the audience of this book was intended to be Americans, and Hornfischer himself is an American, they exist on the same level.
In the book, Hornfischer constantly shows the Americans point of view in the battle. Since he shows only this perspective, the audience is obviously Americans. Hornfisher repeatedly makes the reader sympathize with the Americans during the battle. He also clearly labels the "Japs" as the enemy. This labeling that Hornfischer does during the story shows you that he is on the side of the Americans.
Since Hornfischer is on the Americans side during the book that puts him at a friendly state with the intended audience who are in fact Americans. Hornfischer is attempting to establish a common relationship with the audience. His attempts at establishing this connection are also his attempts at trying to make the audience like him and his work.
So regardless of what people are in the book, the audience should like Hornfischer because he is on the same side they are on. The audience could only be against Hornfischer if they were not his intended audience. For example, if a Japanese person read this book, they might be insulted. Hornfischer writes this book for his intended audience. All the rest of his audience is probably against Hornfischer because he doesn't write for them. He writes for Americans and that puts him on a friendly level with most of them.