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McNamaras Lethal Illusions

McNamara's Lethal Illusions

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One of the great Vietnam War correspondents, former Newsweek Saigon bureau chief Kevin Buckley, on why Robert McNamara, who died Monday, was a descendant of the villain in Graham Greene's The Quiet American.

7:14 PM | Jul 6, 2009
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Queen of the Damned author Anne Rice gave up demonic subjects to return to her religious roots, publishing Christ The Lord: Out of Egypt in 2005.

3:43 PM | Mar 27, 2009

This Gun for Hire and Brighton Rock by Graham Greene. Greene's "entertainments," as he called these short books, offer mesmerizing narratives of suspense. They are complicated by Greene's tortured vision of modern life as idealism caught...

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