Fletcher Knebel

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Fletcher Knebel


Born
in Dayton, Ohio, The United States
October 01, 1911

Died
February 26, 1993

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Fletcher Knebel was an American author of several popular works of political fiction.

He graduated from high school in Yonkers, New York, spent a year studying at the Sorbonne and graduated from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio in 1934. Upon graduation, he received a job offer from the Coatesville Record, in Coatesville, Pennsylvania. He spent the next 20 years working in newspapers, eventually becoming the political columnist for Cowles Publications. From 1951 to 1964, he satirized national politics and government in a nationally published column called "Potomac Fever".

In 1960, he wrote a chapter on John F. Kennedy for the book Candidates 1960. This seemed to ignite a passion for writing books and he turned his hand to book-length works. He
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Night of Camp David

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Dark Horse

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Vanished

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Trespass

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The ZinZin Road

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Convention

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Crossing in Berlin

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No High Ground

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The Bottom Line

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“Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.”
Fletcher Knebel

“Jim MacVeigh had reached the conclusion that the President of the United States was insane.”
Fletcher Knebel, Night of Camp David

“Canada will bring us power for the future, Scandinavia the character, the steadiness…It’s the grand concept for survival…a union of know-how, that’s us, with power and character.”
Fletcher Knebel, Night of Camp David

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