References in Popular Culture
In "Babylon" - the 6th episode of the first season of Mad Men - Don Draper reads the book throughout, with others mentioning its upcoming film release and bestseller status.
A lawsuit for libel was brought against Leon Uris by Dr Wladislaw Dering because of allegations made against Dering in the novel. This lawsuit inspired the fictionalized account of a lawsuit that formed the basis of Uris' own, later novel, QB VII.
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“Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“The man of large and conspicuous public service in civil life must be content without the Presidency. Still more, the availability of a popular man in a doubtful State will secure him the prize in a close contest against the first statesman of the country whose State is safe.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“The time will come when the evil forms we have known can no more be organized. Man’s culture can spare nothing, wants all material. He is to convert all impediments into instruments, all enemies into power.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)