Why Are We in Vietnam?
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Why Are We In Vietnam? is a 1967 novel written by the American author Norman Mailer. The action focuses on a hunting trip to the Brooks Range in Alaska where a young man is brought by his father, a wealthy businessman who works for a company that makes cigarette filters and is obsessed with killing a grizzly bear. As the novel progresses, the protagonist is increasingly disillusioned that his father resorts to hunting tactics that seem dishonest and un-masculine, including the use of a helicopter, which the protagonist refers to as the "Cop-turd." At the end of the novel, the protagonist informs the reader that he is soon going to serve in the Vietnam War as a soldier.
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- The Deer Park (play)
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- Beyond the Law (film)
- Some Honorable Men (anthology)
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