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Helprin is a leading American novelist ( Memoir from Antproof Case , A Soldier of the Great War ) whose great theme is the nobility of the warrior and his worldview.
A 1991 profile in the New York Times Magazine (whose accuracy, it should be noted, Helprin has challenged) depicted him as a man who cheerfully admitted that he couldn't help but spin tall tales, but had learned from hard experience the downside of doing so: "In my first radio interview, the announcer said, 'Tell me about your life.
Among stories the Times writer said Helprin fabricated in his presence , even after making that admission: that his mother was sold into slavery; how when he was a teenager he was attacked by a Pakistani immigrant to Jamaica and received 60 stitches without anesthesia.
Accounts of Helprin's penchant for amusing or self-aggrandizing exaggeration are legendary in the literary world.
Citing the long record of the president's "boldness and mendacity"--not just the Lewinsky case but the Travel Office and FBI file coverups, etc.--Helprin compares the fibbing Clinton to the model of the self-sacrificing statesman: "As others move in the light, he will move in the darkness, so that as others move in darkness, he may move in the light.