[AmericanVictory]

But they were not novels, for one thing. And while they were well written he was completely wrong about the Viet Nam War and played the role of the ideal communist directed useful idiot, just as Ho Chi Minh intended in taking a leaf from his master Mao. See the wonderful summary of Ho's skill in this regard in J.J. Servan Schreiber's "The American Challenge."

[alcuin]

But they were not novels, for one thing.

I assumed the "downhill" was all-inclusive; re his novels, he's never written one that IMneverHO caught "The Bitch" (as he has called a great novel), and I include NATD.

I'm sure he's been used as a dupe from time to time, and he's played the fool, intentionally and with relish (Advertisements for Myself, et al), and he's meddled with certain lives in such a way as to cause great unhappiness. All too true.

Art. Go figger.