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Dalton Trumbo
Born
in Montrose, CO, The United States
December 09, 1905
Died
September 10, 1976
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Johnny Got His Gun
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1939
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7 editions
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Night of the Aurochs
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1979
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11 editions
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Eclipse
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1935
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6 editions
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The Time of the Toad: A Study of Inquisition in America & Two Related Pamphlets
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1949
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15 editions
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Additional Dialogue: Letters of Dalton Trumbo, 1942-1962
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1970
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5 editions
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Spartacus: Screenplay
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The Biggest Thief in Town
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1949
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3 editions
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The Remarkable Andrew
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1941
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4 editions
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Washington Jitters
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1936
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4 editions
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The Devil in the Book
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“If I were dead and buried And I heard your voice, Beneath the sod My heart of dust Would still rejoice.”
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“did anybody ever come back from the dead any single one of the millions who got killed did any one of them ever come back and say by god i'm glad i'm dead because death is always better than dishonor? did they say i'm glad i died to make the world safe for democracy? did they say i like death better than losing liberty? did any of them ever say it's good to think i got my guts blown out for the honor of my country? did any of them ever say look at me i'm dead but i died for decency and that's better than being alive? did any of them ever say here i am i've been rotting for two years in a foreign grave but it's wonderful to die for your native land? did any of them say hurray i died for womanhood and i'm happy see how i sing even though my mouth is choked with worms?”
― Johnny Got His Gun
― Johnny Got His Gun
“Of course a lot of guys were ashamed. Somebody said let's go out and fight for liberty and so they went out and got killed without ever once thinking of liberty. And what kind of liberty were they fighting for anyway? How much liberty and whose kind of liberty? Were they fighting for the liberty of eating free ice cream cones all their lives or for the liberty of robbing anybody they pleased whenever they wanted to or what? You tell a man he can't rob and you take away some of his liberty. You've got to. What the hell does liberty mean anyhow? It's a word like house or table or any other word. Only it's a special kind of word. A guy says house and he can point to a house to prove it. But a guy says come on let's fight for liberty and he can't show you liberty. He can't prove the thing he's talking about so how in the hell can he be telling you to fight for it? No sir anybody who went out and got into the front line trenches to fight for liberty was a goddamn fool and the guy who got him there was a liar.”
― Johnny Got His Gun
― Johnny Got His Gun
Polls
October 2022 New School Classic Group Read
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith, 1955, 288 pages
Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee, 1980, 152 pages
The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig, 1942, 461 pages
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell, 1996, 419 pages
The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen, 1938, 418 pages
Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo, 1938, 309 pages
Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson, 1934, 288 pages
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