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— Michael Holroyd"Between history and the novel stands biography, their unwanted offspring, which has brought a great embarrassment to them both."
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For a while I got into the South Pacific theater of World War II. I read "American Caesar" by William Manchester, the biography of General MacArthur. Because of that I ended up reading "Tales of the South Pacific" by James Michener and then because of that reading his "Hawaii." That is what happens.
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The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. This is its task and its promise.
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