Andrew Carroll
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"Andrew Carroll" is an United States/American author, Editing#Print media/editor, Activism/activist, and historian. He is best known as the author of the 1999 New York Times Best Seller list/New York Times best-selling Letters of a Nation: A Collection of Extraordinary American Letters and the 2001 New York Times best-selling book War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars, which was later turned into an episode of the television program American Experience.

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You get a sense that the letter-writer is in a groove, pouring out these words that give you insight to what this person is thinking.

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This is the historical record. These are the eyewitnesses to these events, so no one can ever say this didn't happen or it wasn't like that. This tells us it happened in a very immediate and quite graphic way.

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The thing about this festival that I love is that it brings people from all walks of life together for a common humanity and that's literature.

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This is a passion I work on seven days a week, ... I'm in this for life.

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No toy stores here. This flag represents America and makes me proud each time I see it.

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There's youth in our locker room, but a lot of us aren't that young. We're 19, 20 or 21. We have good leadership from some players who have played in the Frozen Four (in 2004) and they're setting an example for us.

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I think the writing for this book is extraordinary. And that's why we call it 'Above and Beyond,' because it really is above and beyond what we expected. Writers like (Kurt) Vonnegut and Tim O'Brien waited years after their service to write their books. There's an immediacy and rawness to this book that makes it so compelling.

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It draws us into their story. There is that sense of mystery, of what was that person thinking and what happened to them.

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When they first started doing these, ... a lot of women would kiss the envelopes with lipstick just the way they do with love letters. So as they were going through the processing machines, the lipstick would build up and it would jam the machines. So they had to do Public Service Announcements saying, 'Please don't kiss your letters!' It was called the Scarlet Scourge.

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