Robert Anthony Stone (born 1937) was an American novelist whose preoccupations were politics, the media, and the random, senseless violence and cruelty that pervade contemporary life both in the United States and in parts of the world where United States...

The beginning of A. Alvarez's review of Robert Stone's fourth novel, Children of Light (1986), stands as the best concise summary of Stone's achievement that has yet been published: In just four novels in almost twenty years Robert Stone has established...

CHEYENNE DOG SOLDIERS A Ledgerbook History of Coups and Combat Jean Afton, David Fridtjof Halaas, and Andrew E. Masich, with Richard N. Ellis University Press of Colorado, Niwot, and Colorado Historical Society, Denver, 1997. Illustrations, maps, chart, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index....

PITTSBURGH - For most 21-year-old college students, the only things that concern them are getting a good grade on the next big test, looking good at the next party and staying out of trouble, However, one 354th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment (MPAD) Soldier has...

In 1841 Carlyle opened his series of lectures On Heroes and Hero Worship by speaking of the "common languid times, with their unbelief, distress, perplexity, with their languid doubting characters and embarrassed circumstances, impotently crumbling-down into ever worse distress toward final ruin". Robert Stone's novels have no heroes, but they are about similar times; he has earned himself a reputation, in America particularly, as a beat-generation Carlyle, a cultural conscience working...