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Dedication: “To my Father.” Nominated for the National Book Award in the history and biography category. Rpt: [[68.27]], [[76.5]], [[98.7]] (partial). See [[68.18]], [[69.3]], [[72.7]]. | Dedication: “To my Father.” Nominated for the National Book Award in the history and biography category. Rpt: [[68.27]], [[76.5]], [[98.7]] (partial). See [[68.18]], [[69.3]], [[72.7]]. | ||
{{cquote|. . . you end up writing best about those historic events which have a magnetic relation to your own ideas and tend to write less well about situations where that doesn’t occur. I think, for example, Miami and the Siege of Chicago is probably a better book than ''St. George and the Godfather''.<ref>[[72.17]]</ref> For a number of reasons including the fact that the conventions themselves were more exciting, but also because there was a polarity in ’68 more congenial to me than in ’72.|author= | {{cquote|. . . you end up writing best about those historic events which have a magnetic relation to your own ideas and tend to write less well about situations where that doesn’t occur. I think, for example, Miami and the Siege of Chicago is probably a better book than ''St. George and the Godfather''.<ref>[[72.17]]</ref> For a number of reasons including the fact that the conventions themselves were more exciting, but also because there was a polarity in ’68 more congenial to me than in ’72.|author={{NM}} |source=[[75.11]] }} | ||
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== Bibliography == | == Bibliography == | ||
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[[Category:Novels]] | [[Category:Novels]] | ||
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