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of all of the people you wrote about in this book, who would you not want to meet and talk with because of what you learned about them? i can t think of one, and i will tell you why. this book is different for me in form than anything i have ever done because if you re writing a biography or you re writing the history of an event or accomplishment, there s a certain obvious track, a certain structure that s built into the subject. and you re obligated to respect that and and cover it, write about it, in all fairness to your reader. the cast of characters is already ordained. with this book, i can cast the book myself. i would pick the people that i wanted to write about. there s probably 12 major characters in this book probably 20 some people overall appear in america but that s the fraction of the number that went to paris during this 70-year period that i m covering. so in organizing the book, organizing my approach to the subject, i was in many ways like a casting dir

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