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Sunday, June 6, 2010
The Longest Day
The Birth of Literary Non-Fiction
In 1959, a reporter named Cornelius Ryan published The Longest Day, about the June 6, 1944 invasion of Normandy known as D-Day. In the Columbia Journalism Review this month, author Michael Shapiro argues that Ryan’s book was nothing short of revolutionary.
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