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Name: The Father of All Things
Rating: 4.3 (7 reviews)
Author: Tom Bissell
ISBN: 9780375422652

The Father of All Things

A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam

by Tom Bissell

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First Published:
Mar 6, 2007, 432 pages

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Mar 2008, 432 pages

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FARE THEE WELL! AND IF FOREVER,
STILL, FOR EVER FARE THEE WELL."

Excerpted from The Father of All Things by Tom Bissell Copyright © 2007 by Tom Bissell. Excerpted by permission of Pantheon, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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