As a best-selling author of techno-thrillers he has impressive numbers of loyal, devoted fans, including presidents, vice presidents, and members of Congress. With his books assigned as texts in some college courses and his frequent appearances as guest lecturer before military and intelligence groups, Clancy has at times played a role in establishment politics and influenced many readers. Not only do military people generally say that Clancy gets the military world right in his novels, but many nonmilitary readers accept his views about terrorism, the Cold War, the Vietnam War, trade wars, and the drug culture.
An American of Irish descent, Thomas L. Clancy Jr. was born into a working-class family in Baltimore, Maryland, on 12 April 1947, the second of three children. The son of Thomas Clancy, a mail carrier and credit clerk in a department store, Clancy has always taken pride in his Irish heritage, his Catholic religion, and his hardworking and self-sacrificing parents. His father served in the navy during World War II, and Tom Jr. longed for the chance to become a navy man himself. The closest brush he had with military service, however, was a brief stint in ROTC at Loyola College in Baltimore. The poor eyesight that prevented his joining any branch of the military also cut short his participation in ROTC.
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