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Interview: Dr. David Lowenthal on Orwell's 1984

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The Importance of Writing a Book

At Harvard, he was told to write a book. He did not receive tenure in these videos because it wasn't a book. And for all this time, he hadn't really looked at it. I read more well, but I hadn'treally looked at what I had written. Then I thought, do you know, I wonder if people would be interested. So, the work that you see published now, at the beginning, way back there, something like 1955, 56 or seven, something like that.

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