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Robert Crichton


Born
in Albuquerque, New Mexico, The United States
January 29, 1925

Died
March 23, 1993

Genre
Fiction


Robert Crichton was an American novelist known for both nonfiction and fiction. The son of writer and editor Kyle Crichton, he served in the infantry during World War II, was wounded at the Battle of the Bulge, and managed an ice cream factory in Paris before attending Harvard University on the GI Bill. His first book, The Great Impostor (1959), the true story of Fred Demara, was a bestseller and adapted into a 1961 film. He followed it with The Rascal and the Road, a memoir of his adventures with Demara. Crichton’s first novel, The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1966), about an Italian town resisting the Nazis, became an international bestseller and was adapted into a Golden Globe-winning film. His second novel, The Camerons (1972), drew on hi ...more

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Average rating: 4.14 · 1,946 ratings · 221 reviews · 8 distinct works • Similar authors
The Secret of Santa Vittoria
4.16 avg rating — 1,326 ratings — published 1966 — 5 editions
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The Camerons
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The Great Impostor
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“The duty of the people is to tend to their own affairs.
The duty of government is to help them do it.
This is the pasta of politics.
The inspired leader, the true prince, no matter how great, can only be sauce upon the pasta.
--Bombolini”
― Robert Crichton, The Secret of Santa Vittoria
tags: government, leaders
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“The story is the same, over and over, only the facts are different and the names and the places.”
― Robert Crichton, The Secret of Santa Vittoria
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