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American author and journalist. Best-known for A Rumor of War , a best-selling memoir of his experiences during the Vietnam War.


A cicada we met at Meramac Farm, Missouri

A cicada we met at Meramac Farm, Missouri.


You’ve probably heard that the 17-year cicada is due to emerge this summer, mostly in the Eastern U.S. They will rise out of the burrows they’ve occupied since 1996, then mate, then die. After living underground such a long time, and with death so near, they deserve to have some fun in the open air. Eros and Thanatos and all that.


In 2011, as we travele...

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A Rumor Of War
4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 4,023 ratings — published 1977 — 24 editions
Acts of Faith
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 1,016 ratings — published 2005 — 8 editions
Crossers
3.47 of 5 stars 3.47 avg rating — 310 ratings — published 2009 — 11 editions
The Voyage
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 163 ratings — published 1999 — 5 editions
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3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 176 ratings — published 2002 — 5 editions
Horn of Africa: A Novel
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 122 ratings — published 1980 — 12 editions
Indian Country
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 1987 — 6 editions
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4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions
DelCorso's Gallery
3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 1983 — 5 editions
Means Of Escape: A War Corr...
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1991 — 9 editions
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“Anyone who does not acknowledge the darkness in his nature will succumb to it...the lamp of conviction needs to be shaded by doubt, or it burns with a blinding light.”
Philip Caputo

“Belief is a virus, and once it gets into you, its first order of business is to preserve itself, and the way it preserves itself is to keep you from having any doubts, and the way it keeps you from doubting is to blind you to the way things really are. Evidence contrary to the belief can be staring you straight in the face, and you won't see it... True believers just don't see things the way they are, because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.”
Philip Caputo, Acts of Faith

“Directly overhead the Milky Way was as distinct as a highway across the sky. The constellations shown brilliantly, except the north, where they were blurred by the white sheets of the Aurora. Now shimmering like translucent curtains drawn over the windows of heaven, the northern lights suddenly streaked across a million miles of space to burst in silent explosions. Fountains of light, pale greens, reds, and yellows, showered the stars and geysered up to the center of the sky, where they pooled to form a multicolored sphere, a kind of mock sun that gave light but no heat, pulsing, flaring, and casting beams in all directions, horizon to horizon. Below, the wolves howled with midnight madness and the two young men stood in speechless awe. Even after the spectacle ended, the Aurora fading again to faint shimmer, they stood as silent and transfixed as the first human beings ever to behold the wonder of creation. Starkmann felt the diminishment that is not self-depreciation but humility; for what was he and what was Bonnie George? Flickers of consciousness imprisoned in lumps of dust; above them a sky ablaze with the Aurora, around them a wilderness where wolves sang savage arias to a frozen moon.”
Philip Caputo, Indian Country

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