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What is astonishing about the social history of the Vietnam war is not how many people avoided it, but how many could not and did not.

~John Gregory Dunne

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Class was always the domestic issue during the Vietnam War, not communism.

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You do nonfiction, you get to meet people you would not normally meet.

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Only World War II, which mobilized 10 million draftees, could by any stretch of the imagination be called a people's war.

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Writing is manual labor of the mind - like laying pipe.

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Conspiracy is a small but durable seller, retooled every year or so.

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All life is inherently dangerous. But beyond that, Los Angeles is just a wonderful place to be.

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The myth of the Kennedys - and the hold - was always the hold of the renegade rich, out there on the frontier beyond accountability.

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An Episcopalian military institution when it was founded near the turn of the century, Harvard for years had an implicit quota system that effectively limited the number of Jewish admissions.

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Anecdotes are factoids of questionable provenance, burnished to a high gloss, often set in gilded venues and populated with familiar names as background atmosphere, purged of ambiguity in the interest of keeping the narrative flowing smoothly.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: May 25th, 1932

Died: December 30th, 2003

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