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&ldquo;At once thrilling and informative, awe-inspiring and exact, in places frightening, in other reassuring, and always elegant.&rdquo;&mdash;Booker Prize winning author John Banville&#160; <br>&ldquo;A sharp observer and gifted stylist whose sentences often have a kind of poetic precision.&rdquo;&mdash; Washington Post <br>&#160;<br>&ldquo;Langewiesche&rsquo;s prose flows seamlessly and elegantly.&rdquo;&mdash; San Francisco Chronicle Book Review <br>&#160;<br>&ldquo;[A] formidable talent ... whose cool, precise and economical reporting is harnessed to an invigorating moral and intellectual perspective.&rdquo;&mdash; The New York Times <br>&#160;<br>&#160;

At once thrilling and informative, awe-inspiring and exact, in places frightening, in other reassuring, and always elegant. --Booker Prize winning author John Banville <br><br> A sharp observer and gifted stylist whose sentences often have a kind of poetic precision. -- Washington Post <br> <br> Langewiesche's prose flows seamlessly and elegantly. -- San Francisco Chronicle Book Review <br> <br> [A] formidable talent ... whose cool, precise and economical reporting is harnessed to an invigorating moral and intellectual perspective. -- The New York Times <br> <br>

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William Langewiesche is the author of seven previous books: Cutting for Sign, Sahara Unveiled, Inside the Sky, American Ground, The Outlaw Sea, The Atomic Bazaar, and, most recently, Fly By Wire. He is the international editor for Vanity Fair.

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