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Crowe (English, Augustana Coll., IL) is quick to point out that there is no record of novelist Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) and Vietnamese revolutionary Ho Chi Minh (1890–1969) ever having met. This book is not about their influence on each other but about how their time in Paris during the 1920s helped shape their values. Crowe draws a number of parallels between his subjects, including their Victorian upbringing, their early religious training, their work as journalists, and their reaction...Log In or Sign Up to Read More