Terrifying violence to enforce an official story. Watergate and the origins and scale of the war in Vietnam-uses Government-the same one that recently lied to the American people about Its first third, when the fast-acting "superflu" known as Captain TripsÄestroys an America that was already destroying itself. I enjoyed The Stand from start to finish, but never as much as in Even defaced by King's ill-considered 1990 expansion of the novel, which moved its setting from 1980 to 1990, Phipps writes, The Stand is unmistakably "a product of the '70s," suffused with that decade's sense of disintegration and impending doom. A few days later, Keith Phipps, writing for the AV Club, made the same observation about Stephen King's The Stand. Engh's Arslan, I noted how much of its time-the mid-70s-the novel seemed, most particularly in its conviction that America, still reeling from the cultural clashes of the 60s, the Vietnam War, and Watergate, was on the verge of collapse.
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