![]() ![]() It's an analysis of US foreign policy that lays bare the business of governments making enemies by overruling the autonomy of developing nations, much the way a condescending parent would rule a child. ![]() The whole thing began around 1985 when I read a book called Endless Enemies, by g. So the files grew fat, in proportion to my angst about the undertaking. I did not believe I would ever be writer enough to do it. Into that cabinet I stuffed notes, clippings, photographs, character sketches, plot ideas, anything that struck me as relevant to the huge novel I wished I could write. B efore I wrote The Poisonwood Bible, it haunted my office for a decade in the form of a file cabinet labelled "DAB" – the Damned Africa Book. ![]()
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