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SteveZ
10-16-2008, 01:49 PM
One of my favorite authors. The fun is researching the characters in his books to see who they resemble in fact. Some of them are quite surprising.
chacam
10-16-2008, 04:48 PM
I have copies of every book in all the series and have read them several times. The most entertaining book series I have ever come across.
SteveZ
10-17-2008, 08:15 AM
I have copies of every book in all the series and have read them several times. The most entertaining book series I have ever come across.
The characters are adaptions from many real folk. Have you been able to identify any?

Here's one - Fleming Pickering: The role of this character parallels Lyndon Johnson's assignments during WWII.
chacam
10-17-2008, 02:35 PM
Never thought about it in that respect, or tried to identify any real folks. Did see Al Haigs name a few times and I think many of the subplots are based on factual events so I have learned a lot of history.

Never knew that Lyndon was in the service. Thought he was born a politician ! ! Wikipedia says he was United States Representative from Texas from 1937–1949. Further reading in Wikipedia shows the similarities between him and Flem.
SteveZ
10-18-2008, 01:14 PM
Never thought about it in that respect, or tried to identify any real folks. Did see Al Haigs name a few times and I think many of the subplots are based on factual events so I have learned a lot of history.

Never knew that Lyndon was in the service. Thought he was born a politician ! ! Wikipedia says he was United States Representative from Texas from 1937–1949. Further reading in Wikipedia shows the similarities between him and Flem.

I get a kick out of the latest "Presidential" series. I work at HQ Dept. of Homeland Security (commute between DC and TV - but all that stops in April!) and some of the references to people and locations are a hoot. Whoever WEB Griffin uses as a researchist, they're doing a pretty good job.