Eugene Jarecki

filmmaker, 'Why We Fight'

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Writer-director of Why We Fight and author of The American Way of War: Guided Missiles, Misguided Men, and a Republic in Peril

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‘The King’ documentary asks, is Elvis Presley a metaphor for America?

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