when we have more than 100,000 troops in can justify burning the karan when we have more than 100,000 troops in >> grace elizabeth hale, in your book, "a nation of outsiders," you devote a whole chapter to j.d. salinger and the catcher in the right. wide? >> well, i think he is interesting because his character, holden caulfield is way the first extremely popular rebel figure who really comes from and delete at least opera no class background in this postwar period. he is not alienated because of his race or because of his class background, or because he is a bohemian. is a prep school dropout. he's a resident of a very nice new york apartment. and this is really the dawning of a new kind of rubble. >> what was the effect of the book in 1951? >> it was really huge. the book's style was very different from a lot of published fiction at the time. it was a kind of sliding almost bratty sort of dialogue style that really caught the eye of young people, people of all ages but especially younger people. and the book really made quite an impression on readers at the time. and really througho

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