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Brian VanDeMark

Brian VanDeMark Biography

Brian VanDeMark teaches history at the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis. The author of several books on American history, he also coauthored Robert McNamara's best-selling Vietnam memoir, In Retrospect, which became the basis of the Academy Award-winning documentary The Fog of War. He lives in Maryland.

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    If you enjoyed:
    Kent State

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    by Paul Auster

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    Ben Fountain

    Ben Fountain was born in Chapel Hill and grew up in the tobacco country of eastern North Carolina. A former practicing attorney, he is the author of Brief Encounters with Che Guevara, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award and ... (more)

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    Beautiful Country Burn Again
    by Ben Fountain

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