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THE ODD LITTLE LIFE OF AUDIE MURPHY

About 2 pages (651 words)

The Boston Globe, July 24th, 1989

NO NAME ON THE BULLET. A Biography of Audie Murphy, by Don Graham. Viking. 396 pp. $19.95. Illustrated. Great lives want great biographies. Audie Murphy's was an odd little life, and here we have an odd little biography. Awkward and colloquial in style, it is nonetheless probably as thorough, dogged and truthful a treatment as this unappealing character will ever get. Audie Leon Murphy was born in 1924 into desperate poverty in rural east Texas, cotton country, one of nine children. His hapless sharecropper father deserted the family, and when his mother died, most of his younger siblings went...

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