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ere too spoiled to respect authority, too selfish to appreciate what it takes to hold a society together, too cowardly to serve in Vietnam. In 1964, impatient with Arkansas’ backward image, he challenged Faubus for governor. The ice was thick, and there was enough snow on it to give some traction. It said something about thevictiMs .

  'Yes, it's me. I had been reading up on Spain and was totally mesmerized by it, thanks to André Malraux’sMan’s Hope, George Orwell’sHomage to Catalonia, and Hugh Thomas’s masterlyThe Spanish Civil War. I suppose I was being a scab for the first and only time in my life, but the union didn’t have a picket line outside the museum and, besides, politics was the last thing on my mind. Get a bus.