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Frances FitzGerald, Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam Quotes: In his failure Nhu had withdrawn so far into himself that in the end his face was a mask that no longer opened onto the real world.
         

In his failure Nhu had withdrawn so far into himself that in the end his face was a mask that no longer opened onto the real world.


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