I had to go back and read the Wikipedia entry for the movie, because the last 50 pages of this book were pretty shocking and I didn’t recall them. But the movie ended up being pretty faithful to the book. This book is awesome: really truly and wholeheartedly. It’s awful too — casual misogyny and homophobia at times, plenty of 1950s racism too — so be forewarned. But as a deeply cynical and cutting take on the Cold War, American Idealism, false stories we tell […]