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His [the Virginian's] dream was to found an aristocratic republic, in which superior individuals would emerge to rule the many.

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I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again … the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
J. G. Ballard

Clifford Dowdey

Clifford Dowdey

Born: 1904
Died: May 30, 1979 (aged 75)
Bio: Clifford Dowdy was an American author of fiction and nonfiction dealing with the American South, Virginia and especially the Civil War era.
Known for:
  1. Lee and his men at Gettysburg (1958)
  2. The Seven Days: The Emergence of Lee (1964)
  3. Bugles Blow No More (1937)
  4. Lees Last Campaign (1960)

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