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"Sheer intellectual bliss, " "The Los Angeles Times."

"A Passionate and erudite critique of American culture, " "Library Journal."

One man's time capsule, lovingly gathered and carefully packed and then deliberately dropped from a great height, shattering on impact into brilliant smithereens. A tender, funny, language-drunk mix of autobiography, confession, commonplace book, humanist battlecry, it's completely wonderful, " Michael Herr, autho of "Dispatches."