As Rich Cohen wrote in
Rolling Stone, "Indeed, Clancy seems to have saturated the national consciousness, creating a new American style, a hybrid of rugged individualism and high technology." Popular with armed forces personnel as well as with the general reading public, Clancy's novels have garnered praise from such prominent figures as former President Ronald Reagan and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger. His work has also received negative attention from officials who have found his extrapolations from declassified information uncomfortably close to top-secret reality, and from reviewers who criticize his characterizations and too-perfect weaponry. Still, book sales in the millions and constant best-seller status attest to Clancy's continued popularity as "novelist laureate of the military-industrial complex," as Ross Thomas described him in the
Washington Post Book World. Clancy has written a number of other novels since The Hunt for Red October, as well as penning a number of volumes of nonfiction. He has also helped create several book series for adults and teen readers. "So how does he do it"" wondered Thomas Vinciguerra in the New York Times. The critic answered his own rhetorical question: "Clancy's fans adore his penchant for breakneck storytelling, as well as the welter of obsessively authentic detail he brings to his yarns." Vinciguerra further noted, however, that Clancy's "detractors .
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