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'Hemingway': TV Review

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For around four decades between the 1920s and 1950s, Ernest Hemingway dominated American arts and letters in a way it would be hard to imagine any novelist doing today.

He wrote novels and nonfiction and short stories and dispatches from the frontlines of World War II. His books won awards and they were bestsellers and the only thing critics could compare Hemingway's work to was whatever Hemingway had written before.

He built a persona defined by uncompromising masculinity. It was a paradigm. It was a construction, a myth. As powerful as that mystique was in the first half of the 20th century, it would be impossible to think of a figure less-suited for glorification in the first half of the 21st century.

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