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203 Index Achilles (in Homer’s Iliad), 187, 188, 192 Afghanistan, 38; war in, 176, 190 Alamo, the, 178 Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll), 25, 50, 177, 195 Alzheimer’s Disease, 132 American Colonial period writers, 107 Apocalypse Now (film), 9, 10, 35, 63–64, 194–95 Atlantic, 68, 160, 180 Autry, Gene, 102 Baby Boomer generation, 163 Bambi, 72 Bao Dai, 80 Barth, John, 12 Baumer, Paul, 109 Bible, 14, 27, 57 Birnbaum, Robert (interviewer), ix, xv, 160–72 Boer War, 112 Booth, John Wilkes, 142 Borden, Lizzie, 97, 141, 179 Borges, Jorge Luis, xv, 12, 15, 26, 65, 77, 81, 175 Boston Red Sox, 52, 172, 186 Bourne, Daniel (interviewer), xiii, 68–87, 192 Breadloaf Writers’ Conference, 51 Brooke, Rupert, 9 Broyles, Bill, 49 Bundy, George, 151, 188 Bundy, Ted, 43, 44 Bush, George H. W., 80, 150 Bush, George W., 189 Cacciato, Richard, 91–92 Caldwell, Gail (Boston Globe), vii, xii, 52–57, 165 Calley, Lieutenant William, xiii, 153. See also My Lai Caputo, Philip (A Rumor of War), xv, 109, 191 Carson, Johnny, 131 Carver, Raymond, 159, 178 Cassavetes, Nick, 144 Catherine the Great, 97 Charlie Company, 152 Cheever, John (Stories), ix, 117 Cheney, Richard, 182, 189 Chu Lai (Vietnam), 93 Civil Rights Movement, 176 Clinton, Bill, 122 Cold War, ix, 188 College of Wooster, 69 Coming Home (film), 10, 194 Conrad, Joseph, ix, xv, xix, 44, 59, 61, 62, 65, 71, 84, 98, 114, 119, 128, 175, 181; Heart of Darkness, 59–60, 65, 66, 71, 195; Lord Jim, 61, 65, 71, 204 INDEX 114; Nigger of the Narcissus, 114; Nostromo, 71; Typhoon, 71; Victory, 114; Youth, 71 Coover, Robert (The Public Burning), 4 Crane, Stephen, 78, 192; The Red Badge of Courage, 9, 109, 186, 192 Crimea, 112 Crosby, Bing, 79 Custer, George Armstrong, 178 Dahmer, Jeffrey, 159 Damon, Matt, 122 D’Amore, Jonathan (interviewer), xv, 173–79 De Niro, Robert, 195 Deer Hunter, The (film), 10, 194–96 Del Vecchio, John (The 13th Valley), xv Desert Storm, 98 DiCaprio, Leonardo, 143–45 Dickens, Charles, 82 Dos Passos, John, xv, 107, 175 Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 65, 95; The Brothers Karamazov, 65; Crime and Punishment, 65, 95 Dr. Strangelove (film), 14 Earhart, Amelia, 178, 179 Eastlake, William (The Bamboo Bed), 8 Eliot, T. S. (“objective correlative”), 135 Emerson, Gloria, 23 Esquire, xxii, xxiii, 124, 142, 161, 180 Faulkner, William, ix, xv, 42, 82, 107, 119, 127–28, 175; The Sound and the Fury, 107 Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 61, 62, 107 Flaubert, Gustave (Madame Bovary), 96 Fort Lewis, Washington, 4, 7 Fourteenth Amendment (Constitution), 97 Fowles, John, 21, 65, 81; “Poor Cocoa,” 65 Frazier (television show), 151 French colonialism, 80 Freud, Sigmund, 131 Fussell, Paul (The Great War and Modern Memory), 109 Gass, William, 11 Gilb, Dagoberto, 168 Gipson, Hoot, 102 Godfather, The (film), 138 Goldilocks, 72 Graves, Robert, 9 Green Berets, 56 Grimm’s Fairy Tales, 101 Gulf of Tonkin, 108 Gulf War, 150, 176, 190 Hanks, Tom, 122 Hansen, Erik, 27, 39 Harris, Mark (Bang the Drum Slowly), 170 Harrison, Jim, 186 Harper’s, 160, 180 Hasford, Gustav (The Short-Timers), 35 Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 107 Hector (in Homer’s Iliad), 192 Heinemann, Larry (Paco’s Story), 145 Heller, Joseph, 192; Catch-22, 9, 166 Hemingway, Ernest, viii, xv, 4, 13–14, 32, 42–43, 61–62, 107, 128, 149, 175, 192; Farewell to Arms, 43, 78; The Sun Also Rises, 14, 43, 62, 107, 164 Heroes (Vietnam film), 10 Herr, Michael (Dispatches), xv, 8, 10, 27, 31, 34, 36–37, 116, 119 [3.149.214.32] Project MUSE (2024-04-18 08:45 GMT) INDEX 205 Herzog, Tobey C. (interviewer), viii, xi, 100–14 Hills, Rust, 161 History Channel, 179 Hitler, Adolf, 112, 153, 189 Ho Chi Minh, 80 Hobbit, The (J. R. R. Tolkien), 50 Hoffman, Abbie, 107 Holocaust, 153 Homer, 187–88, 192–93; The Iliad, 27, 78, 186–87, 192; The Odyssey, 27, 78 Hope, Bob, 79 Houghton Mifflin (publisher). See Lawrence, Seymour Hugo, Victor (Les Misérables), 65 Humphrey, Hubert H., 106 Hussein, Saddam, xv, 80–81, 151 Iraq, war in, xv, 151, 176, 189–90 Irving, John, ix, xxii, 21, 117, 140; The Hotel New Hampshire, 21; The World According to Garp, ix, xxii, 4, 21, 117 Iwo Jima, 116 James, Henry, 19 Johnson, Denis (Tree of Smoke), 190 Johnson, Lyndon B., 3, 102, 150 Jonestown (Guyana), 165 Joyce, James, 126–28, 130; Ulysses, 107, 126, 129 Judge Crater, 64 Kalevalan mythology, 13–14 Kaplan, Steven (interviewer...

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